Pronunciation Noun
barrel (plural barrels)
- (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- a cracker barrel
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (archaic) A tube.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- Throw it into the trash barrel.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (obsolete) A jar.
- Bible, 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
- And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: […]
- compare the New International Version:
- "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. […]
- compare the New International Version:
- And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: […]
- Bible, 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- French: tonneau, barrique
- German: Fass, Tonne
- Italian: barile, botte
- Portuguese: barril
- Russian: бо́чка
- Spanish: barril, tonel
- German: Federspule, Spindel
- German: Abfallbehälter, Abfalltonne
- German: Rumpf
barrel (barrels, present participle barrelling; past and past participle barrelled)
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
- Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.
- French: embariller
- Portuguese: embarrilar
- Spanish: embarrilar
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