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Definition of Barrel

Barrel 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. A jar. The hollow basal part of a feather. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. Related Definitions: Also, And, Article, As, Barrel, Basal, Being, Bound, Breadth, Bulging, By, Case, Cask, Coiled, Custom, Cylinder, Different, Discharged, Drum, Feather, Flat, Flour, For, From, Full, Gun, Having, Hollow, In, Is, Jar, Law, Length, Made, Metallic, Middle, Of, Or, Pack, Part, Pounds, Projectile, Put, Quantity, Regulated, Round, Same, Solid, Spring, Staves, Than, The, This, To, Tube, Vessel, Watch, Which, Windlass, Wine, With, Within

Barrel Quotations Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-Tung People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there. Jennifer Lopez You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that. Hans Blix I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. George Galloway Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort. John Olver

Barrel Translations 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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