barrel

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 2 Tatar 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Declension

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French baril.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɛɹəl/
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• Rhymes: -ærəl

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barrel (plural barrels)

1. (countable) 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. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

   a cracker barrel

2. 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 1/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.

   • 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.
   • 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;

   the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
5. (obsolete) A jar. 1 Kings xvii. 12.
6. (archaic) A tube.
7. (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
8. (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
9. (idiomatic, surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
10. (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.

    Throw it away in the trash barrel.

11. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

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barrel of monkeys barrel roll like shooting fish in a barrel

lock, stock and barrel over a barrel

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to barrel (third-person singular simple present barrels, present participle barrelling, simple past and past participle barrelled)

1. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

   He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

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barrel

1. barrel (units of measure).

Ber barrel neft 41 dollar = One barrel of oil 41 dollar [1].

[edit] Declension

Nominative barrel

Genitive barrelnıñ

Dative barrelga

Accusative barrelnı

Locative barrelda

Ablative barreldan