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.
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.
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.
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. Warren Buffett
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. Rick Danko
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Zedong
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. Gore Vidal
barrel in Afrikaans is buis
barrel in Dutch is ton, vat, fust
barrel in Finnish is putki
barrel in Italian is barile
barrel in Portuguese is tambor
barrel in Spanish is barril
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