Barrel - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈbærəl|  American pronunciation of the word barrel
Brit.  |ˈbær(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word barrel

noun

- a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids (syn: cask)
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends (syn: drum)
- the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- any of various units of capacity
a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons

verb

- put in barrels

Extra examples

Oak barrels are used for aging the wine.

The price of oil is over 30 dollars a barrel.

They drank a whole barrel of beer.

The truck went barreling down Main Street.

She came running out of her office and went barreling past us down the hall.

The wine is aged in oak barrels.

A vehicle barreled out of a shopping center and crashed into the side of my car.

She rammed the cork into the barrel.

...a madcap scheme to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel...

...the congressman's underhand attempt to slip several pork barrel items into the bill...

We had a barrel of brandy which we husbanded as well as we could.

They could polish off a barrel of beer in half an hour.

The price of oil fell by a further $2 a barrel.

He moved the whole company, lock, stock, and barrel, to Mexico.

It was clear that the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: barrel
he/she/it: barrels
present participle: barrelling or barreling
past tense: barrelled or barreled
past participle: barrelled or barreled
noun
singular: barrel
plural: barrels
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