English Dictionary

barrel

/ˈbæɹəl/

noun

(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.

The wine was stored in a wooden barrel.

意味（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.

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).

意味（2）

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

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.

意味（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.

意味（4）

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

You're shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes

意味（5）

(television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.

Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.

意味（6）

(archaic) A tube.

意味（7）

(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.

意味（8）

(music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).

意味（9）

(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.

意味（10）

(US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.

Throw it into the trash barrel.

意味（11）

The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

意味（12）

(obsolete) A jar.

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: …

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: … New International Version translation: “As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. …

意味（13）

(biology) 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.

意味（14）

(baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.

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