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barrel
[ bar-uhl ]
noun
- a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- the quantity that such a vessel of some standard size can hold: for most liquids, 31½ U.S. gallons (119 L); for petroleum, 42 U.S. gallons (159 L); for dry materials, 105 U.S. dry quarts (115 L). : bbl
- any large quantity:
a barrel of fun.
- any container, case, or part similar to a wooden barrel in form.
- Ordnance. the tube of a gun.
- Machinery. the chamber of a pump in which the piston works.
- a drum turning on a shaft, as in a weight-driven clock.
- Horology. the cylindrical case in a watch or clock within which the mainspring is coiled.
- Ornithology Obsolete. a calamus or quill.
- the trunk of a quadruped, especially of a horse, cow, etc.
- Nautical. the main portion of a capstan, about which the rope winds, between the drumhead at the top and the pawl rim at the bottom.
- a rotating horizontal cylinder in which manufactured objects are coated or polished by tumbling in a suitable substance.
- any structure having the form of a barrel vault.
- Also called throat. Automotive. a passageway in a carburetor that has the shape of a Venturi tube.
verb (used with object)
- to put or pack in a barrel or barrels.
- to finish (metal parts) by tumbling in a barrel.
- Informal. to force to go or proceed at high speed:
He barreled his car through the dense traffic.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to travel or drive very fast:
to barrel along the highway.
barrel
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noun
- a cylindrical container usually bulging outwards in the middle and held together by metal hoops; cask
- Also calledbarrelful the amount that a barrel can hold
- a unit of capacity used in brewing, equal to 36 Imperial gallons
- a unit of capacity used in the oil and other industries, normally equal to 42 US gallons or 35 Imperial gallons
- a thing or part shaped like a barrel, esp a tubular part of a machine
- the tube through which the projectile of a firearm is discharged
- horology the cylindrical drum in a watch or clock that is rotated by the mainspring
- the trunk of a four-legged animal
the barrel of a horse
- the quill of a feather
- informal.a large measure; a great deal (esp in the phrases barrel of fun, barrel of laughs )
- informal.the hollow inner side of a wave
- over a barrel informal.powerless
- scrape the barrel informal.to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
verb
- tr to put into a barrel or barrels
- informal.intr; foll by along, in, etc intr to travel or move very fast
- informal.to ride on the inside of a wave
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó²¹±ô´Ú-²ú²¹°ù۱ð±ô noun
- ³Ü²Ô·²ú²¹°ù۱ð±ô±ð»å adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²ú²¹°ù۱ð±ô±ô±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of barrel1
Idioms and Phrases
- over a barrel, Informal. in a helpless, weak, or awkward position; unable to act:
They really had us over a barrel when they foreclosed the mortgage.
More idioms and phrases containing barrel
see both barrels ; bottom of the barrel ; cash on the barrelhead ; like shooting fish in a barrel ; lock, stock, and barrel ; more fun than a barrel of monkeys ; over a barrel ; pork barrel ; rotten apple (spoils the barrel) .Example Sentences
The fattest part of the barrel is actually closer to the handle, with the idea of redistributing more mass to an area where some hitters make more frequent contact.
In his own swing, Muncy noted, he typically hits the ball closer to the end of the bat; a place where, on the torpedo design, the barrel tapers off.
Bats used in those rec leagues — while metal — feature lengthy barrels that taper at the end, looking a bit like a bowling pin.
More than 200,000 barrels of jet fuel are to be removed from the oil tanker involved in a crash with a cargo ship in the North Sea.
The order is the latest example of what the Times describes as Trump’s “strikingly aggressive approach to power, moving swiftly to claim more authority and barrel through norms…â€
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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