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