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What (who) is barrel - definition

HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER

Barrels; Aging barrel; Cask; Casks; Angel's share; Ageing barrel; Over a barrel; Barrel aging; Barrel ageing; Over the barrel; Barrel (storage); Aging barrels; Angels' Share; Beer barrel; Beer-barrels; Wooden barrel; Foeder; Flour barrel; Barrel hoop; Beer cask

barrel

NASA MISSION

User:FoxBee/BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses

n.

1) to tap a barrel

2) (misc.) (colloq.) to have smb. over a barrel ('to have placed smb. in a difficult position')

barrel

NASA MISSION

User:FoxBee/BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses

(barrels, barrelling, barrelled)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

Note: in AM, use 'barreling', 'barreled'

1.

A barrel is a large, round container for liquids or food.

The wine is aged for almost a year in oak barrels.

N-COUNT

2.

In the oil industry, a barrel is a unit of measurement equal to 159 litres.

In 1989, Kuwait was exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil a day...

Oil prices were closing at $19.76 a barrel.

N-COUNT: oft N of n

3.

The barrel of a gun is the tube through which the bullet moves when the gun is fired.

He pushed the barrel of the gun into the other man's open mouth.

N-COUNT: oft N of n, n N

4.

If a vehicle or person is barreling in a particular direction, they are moving very quickly in that direction. (mainly AM)

The car was barreling down the street at a crazy speed.

= career

VERB: V prep/adv

5.

see also pork barrel

6.

If you say, for example, that someone moves or buys something lock, stock, and barrel, you are emphasizing that they move or buy every part or item of it.

They dug up their New Jersey garden and moved it lock, stock, and barrel back home.

PHRASE: PHR after v [emphasis]

7.

If you say that someone is scraping the barrel, or scraping the bottom of the barrel, you disapprove of the fact that they are using or doing something of extremely poor quality. (INFORMAL)

PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval]

Barrel

NASA MISSION

User:FoxBee/BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses); Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses

·noun A Jar.

II. Barrel ·noun The hollow basal part of a feather.

III. Barrel ·vt To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

IV. Barrel ·noun A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

V. Barrel ·noun A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

VI. Barrel ·noun 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.

VII. Barrel ·noun The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

Wikipedia

Barrel

A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; a small barrel or cask is known as a keg.

Modern wooden barrels for wine-making are made of French common oak (Quercus robur), white oak (Quercus petraea), American white oak (Quercus alba), more exotic is Mizunara Oak all typically have standard sizes: Recently Oregon Oak (Quercus Garryana) has been used.

"Bordeaux type" 225 litres (59 US gal; 49 imp gal),
"Burgundy type" 228 litres (60 US gal; 50 imp gal) and
"Cognac type" 300 litres (79 US gal; 66 imp gal).

Modern barrels and casks can also be made of aluminum, stainless steel, and different types of plastic, such as HDPE.

Someone who makes barrels is called a "barrel maker" or cooper (coopers also make buckets, vats, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, kegs, kilderkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, troughs and breakers).

Barrels have a variety of uses, including storage of liquids such as water, oil, and alcohol. They are also employed to hold maturing beverages such as wine, cognac, armagnac, sherry, port, whiskey, beer, arrack, and sake. Other commodities once stored in wooden casks include gunpowder, meat, fish, paint, honey, nails and tallow.

Early casks were bound with wooden hoops and in the 19th century these were gradually replaced by metal hoops that were stronger, more durable and took up less space. The term barrel can also refer to roughly cylindrical containers or drums made of modern materials like plastic, steel or aluminium.

The barrel has also been used as a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of 36 imperial gallons (160 L; 43 US gal). Wine was shipped in barrels of 119 litres (31 US gal; 26 imp gal). A barrel of oil, defined as 42 US gallons (35 imp gal; 160 L), is still used as a measure of volume for oil, although oil is no longer shipped in barrels. The barrel has also come into use as a generic term for a wooden cask of any size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel

Examples of use of barrel

1. A barrel of oil (42 gallons) is $70, and a barrel of bottled water is $450.

2. Meanwhile, oil rose by $3 per barrel to cross $114 per barrel.

3. Yesterday, prices were about $74 per barrel, compared with about $40 per barrel at the start of 2005 and just $20 per barrel at the beginning of 2002.

4. Prices peaked at over $145 a barrel in July 2008, before falling below $100 a barrel in September resulting in a year to date average of about $114 a barrel, up from $72 a barrel in 2007.

5. Crude prices were slipping from about $70 a barrel in August toward $50 a barrel.