barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ(ə)l/
ipa: [ˈbæɹəɫ]
ipa: /ˈbæɹəl/
ipa: [ˈbæɹəɫ]
ipa: /ˈbɛɚəl/
ipa: /ˈbɛɹəl/
ipa: [ˈbɛɚəɫ]
ipa: /ˈbæɹəɫ/
rhymes: -æɹəl
Forms: form: barrels
form: barrell
Etymology: From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternative connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cask
text: a cracker barrel
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: bbl#Noun
coordinate_terms: drum#Noun
glosses: A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
examples: text: Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
ref: 1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 81:
synonyms: bbl#Noun
bbl#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: drum#Noun
word: rundlet
english: in order of increasing volume
translation: in order of increasing volume
word: ;
word: tierce
word: ;
word: hogshead
word: ;
word: puncheon
word: tertian
word: ;
word: pipe
word: butt
word: ;
word: tun
glosses: A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
hypernyms: cask#Noun
examples: text: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:
text: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:
glosses: The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
examples: text: the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
glosses: A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
examples: text: You're shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes
ref: 2010, Deftones, Beauty School:
glosses: A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: bbl
v
V
glosses: A venturi (in carburetion).
examples: text: Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.
ref: 2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 325:
text: The barrel, which is usually from 2.0 m to 2.5 m long, and capable of lifting loads up to 120 kg, is suspended from the main housing which contains the motor gearbox unit, etc.
ref: 2013, Brian Fitt, Joe Thornley, Lighting Technology, page 118:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
glosses: Any tube.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The hollow basal part of a feather.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
examples: text: Throw it into the trash barrel.
glosses: A waste receptacle.
glosses: The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
examples: text: And ſhe ſaid, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but an handfull of meale in a barrell, and a little oyle in a cruſe: [...]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 17:12, column 2:
english: New International Version translation: “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. …
translation: New International Version translation: “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. …
bold_translation_offsets: 145
148
glosses: A jar.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
Synonyms: sense: cylindrical container, or cask of a certain size
word: bbl
Coordinate terms: sense: round vessel
word: keg
sense: round vessel
word: vat
Meronyms: alt: barrelhead
word: head
word: hoop
alt: e.g., pipestave
word: stave
Derived terms: African milk barrel
barrel adjuster
barrelage
barrel bag
barrel-bellied
barrel bomb
barrel bulk
barrel cactus
barrel chest
barrel-chested
barrel child
barrel drum
barrelene
barrelette
barreleye
barrel fever
barrel file
barrelfish
barrelful
barrel-head
barrel head
barrel helm
barrel hitch
barrel hoop
barrelhouse
barrel jellyfish
barrel jump
barrel jumping
barrel key
barrel knot
barrelless
barrellike
barrelmaker
barrelmaking
barrel nut
barrel nut connector
Barrel of Doom
barrel of fun
barrel of land
barrel of laughs
barrel of monkeys
barrel of sunshine
barreloid
barrel-organ
barrel organ
barrel organist
barrel piano
barrel plating
barrel process
barrel race
barrel racer
barrel roll
barrel roof
barrel sauna
barrel shifter
barrel shroud
barrel sling
barrel sponge
barrel vault
barrelwise
beta barrel
bottom of the barrel
budge barrel
burn barrel
cash on the barrel-head
cash on the barrel head
construction barrel
cracker barrel
cracker-barrel
crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
crooked as a barrel of snakes
Damascus barrel
double-barrel
double barrel vault
escalator barrel
fat as a barrel
funny as a barrel of monkeys
gigabarrel
going barrel
infrabarreled
infrabarrelled
in the barrel
light barrel
like shooting fish in a barrel
lock, stock and barrel
multibarrel
oil barrel
one bad apple can spoil the barrel
one's turn in the barrel
over a barrel
Pascal's barrel
pork-barrel
pork barrel
rain barrel
rain-barrel
rebarrel
scrape the barrel
scrape the bottom of the barrel
scrape at the bottom of the barrel
sixtel
sound as a barrel
there's a rotten apple in every barrel
traffic barrel
triple barrel
U-barrel
unbarrel
wash barrel