Definition of Barrel

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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.

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Barrel Quotations

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
William J. Clinton

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
Dan Aykroyd

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

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

I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
Victoria Abril

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
Moshe Dayan

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'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
Owen Hart

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
Paul Gillmor

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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