barrel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French barilbor.
Middle English barel
English barrel
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.
Base: bear
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: barrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barrell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: barrels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barreling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: barrelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: barreled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: barreled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: barrelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: barrelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: barrell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Near-synonym: cask
a cracker barrel
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).
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
gloss: The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
pos: noun
examples: the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
gloss: A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
pos: noun
examples: You're shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes
gloss: A venturi (in carburetion).
pos: noun
gloss: A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
pos: noun
examples: Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.
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.
gloss: Any tube.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The hollow basal part of a feather.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
pos: noun
gloss: A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
pos: noun
gloss: A waste receptacle.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
US
specifically
examples: Throw it into the trash barrel.
gloss: The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
pos: noun
gloss: A jar.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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: [...]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.
gloss: To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.
Days before Trump’s inauguration, his envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, barrelled into Israel with a demand to meet Netanyahu on Shabbat in order to strongarm him into negotiating a ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza.
gloss: To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bet consecutively on multiple streets.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: cooper
Derived words: 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
every barrel has a rotten apple
fat as a barrel
funny as a barrel of monkeys
gigabarrel
going barrel
gun barrel
gun-barrel
gunbarrel
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
pilgrim'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
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: vat
lang: Albanian
word: tytë
lang: Arabic
word: بِرْمِيل
roman: birmīl
lang: Arabic
word: برميل
roman: barmīl
lang: Armenian
word: տակառ
roman: takaṙ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çəllək
lang: Belarusian
word: бо́чка
roman: bóčka
lang: Bengali
word: পিপা
roman: pipa
lang: Bulgarian
word: бъ́чва
roman: bǎ́čva
lang: Bulgarian
word: бу́ре
roman: búre
lang: Bulgarian
word: ка́ца
roman: káca
lang: Burmese
word: စည်
roman: cany
lang: Burmese
word: စည်ပိုင်း
roman: canypuing:
lang: Catalan
word: bóta
lang: Catalan
word: barral
lang: Catalan
word: barril
lang: Catalan
word: bocoi
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏒᏙᏂ
roman: svdoni
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 桶
roman: tung²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 桶
roman: tǒng
lang: Cornish
word: balyer
lang: Czech
word: sud
lang: Czech
word: bečka
lang: Danish
word: tønde
lang: Danish
word: fad
lang: Dutch
word: ton
lang: Dutch
word: vat
lang: Esperanto
word: barelo
lang: Estonian
word: vaat
lang: Faroese
word: tunna
lang: Finnish
word: tynnyri
lang: French
word: tonneau
lang: French
word: barrique
lang: French
word: futaille
lang: Middle French
word: tonnel
lang: Old French
word: tonel
lang: Georgian
word: კასრი
roman: ḳasri
lang: German
word: Fass
lang: German
word: Tonne
lang: German
word: Gebinde
lang: Greek
word: βαρέλι
roman: varéli
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πίθος
roman: píthos
lang: Hebrew
word: חָבִית
roman: khavít
lang: Hindi
word: पीपा
roman: pīpā
lang: Hungarian
word: hordó
lang: Icelandic
word: tunna
lang: Indonesian
word: tong
lang: Ingrian
word: bocka
lang: Ingrian
word: puin
lang: Ingrian
word: pytty
lang: Irish
word: bairille
lang: Italian
word: barile
lang: Italian
word: botte
lang: Japanese
word: 樽
roman: taru
lang: Kannada
word: ಪೀಪಾಯಿ
roman: pīpāyi
lang: Kazakh
word: бөшке
roman: böşke
lang: Khmer
word: តុង
roman: tong
lang: Khmer
word: ធុង
roman: thung
lang: Korean
word: 통
roman: tong
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бочка
roman: bocka
lang: Lao
word: ຖັງ
roman: thang
lang: Lao
word: ກະຖັງ
roman: ka thang
lang: Lao
word: ກະໂຫລ່ງ
roman: ka lōng
lang: Latgalian
word: buca
lang: Latin
word: cupa
lang: Latin
word: dolium
lang: Latvian
word: muca
lang: Lingala
word: pipa
lang: Lithuanian
word: stati̇̀nė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Faass
lang: Macedonian
word: буре
roman: bure
lang: Malay
word: tong
lang: Maltese
word: bittija
lang: Manx
word: stoandey
lang: Māori
word: kāho
lang: Mongolian
word: боошиг
roman: boošig
lang: Mongolian
word: торх
roman: torx
lang: Norman
word: bathi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tønne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fat
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tunne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tønne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: fat
lang: Church Slavic
word: бъчька
roman: bŭčĭka
lang: Old English
word: tunne
lang: Persian
word: بُشکِه
roman: boške
lang: Persian
word: پیپ
roman: pīp
lang: Persian
word: تنکه
roman: tonke
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چلیک
roman: čalik
lang: Polabian
word: klådă
lang: Polish
word: beczka
lang: Portuguese
word: barril
lang: Romanian
word: butoi
lang: Romanian
word: bute
lang: Russian
word: бо́чка
roman: bóčka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: baraille
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ба̏чва
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бу̏ре
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȁčva
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȕre
lang: Slovak
word: sud
lang: Slovene
word: sod
lang: Spanish
word: barril
lang: Spanish
word: tonel
lang: Spanish
word: cuñete
lang: Spanish
word: bocoy
lang: Spanish
word: barrica
lang: Sudovian
word: kanove
lang: Swahili
word: pipa
lang: Swedish
word: tunna
lang: Swedish
word: fat
lang: Swedish
word: oljefat
lang: Tajik
word: бочка
roman: bočka
lang: Thai
word: ถัง
roman: tǎng
lang: Tibetan
word: ཟོམ
roman: zom
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆུ་ཟོམ
roman: chu zom
lang: Turkish
word: varil
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فوچی
roman: fuçı, fıçı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شرابخانه
roman: şarabhane
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: واریل
roman: varil
lang: Turkmen
word: çelek
lang: Ukrainian
word: бо́чка
roman: bóčka
lang: Urdu
word: پیپا
roman: pīpā
lang: Uyghur
word: چېلەك
roman: chëlek
lang: Uyghur
word: تۇڭ
roman: tung
lang: Uzbek
word: bochka
lang: Vietnamese
word: thùng rượu
lang: Vietnamese
word: thùng tonneau
lang: Vietnamese
word: thùng tròn
lang: Walloon
word: tonea
lang: Welsh
word: casgen
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַס
roman: fas