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- Dictionarybarrel/ˈbarəl/
noun
- 1. a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them: "the wine is then matured in old barrels"
- 2. a tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen: "a gun barrel"
verb
- 1. drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control: informal North American "we barrelled across the Everglades"
- 2. put into a barrel or barrels: "when the young spirit is barrelled, it absorbs some of this flavour"
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noun. bar· rel ˈber-əl. ˈba-rəl. Synonyms of barrel. 1. : a round bulging vessel of greater length than breadth that is usually made of staves bound with hoops and has flat ends of equal diameter. 2. a. : the amount contained in a barrel.
(Definition of barrelling from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of barrelling. barrelling. It was like a thunderous train of air and it would come barrelling down at her over the landscape. From. Wikipedia.
(Definition of barrelling from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of barrelling. barrelling. He didn't even abandon his bag when he saw debris from the collapsed tower barrelling toward him with the force of a tidal wave. From The Star-Ledger - NJ.com.
I remember my hesitation in front of Anna's hotel door, and the old man barrelling down the corridor towards me.
a large container, made of wood, metal, or plastic, with a flat top and bottom and curved sides that make it fatter in the middle: They drank a whole barrel of beer (= the contents of a barrel) at the party. bobey100/E+/GettyImages. In the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
n. 1. A large cylindrical container, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter. 2. The quantity that a barrel with a given or standard capacity will hold. 3. Abbr. bar. or bbl. or bl. Any of various units of volume or capacity.
A barrel is a large, round container for liquids or food. The wine is aged for almost a year in oak barrels. ...barrels of pickled fish. Synonyms: cask, drum, butt, vat More Synonyms of barrel. 2. countable noun. In the oil industry, a barrel is a unit of measurement equal to 159 litres.
