barrel meaning

• Noun: barrel  barul
  1. A tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
     - gun barrel 
  2. A cylindrical container that holds liquids
     - cask 
  3. A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
     - drum 
  4. The quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
     - barrelful 
  5. Any of various units of capacity
     "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
     - bbl
  Verb: barrel (barrelled,barrelling, or [US] barreled,barreling)  barul
  1. Put in barrels

  Derived forms: barrels, barreling, barrelled, barrelling

  Type of: British capacity unit, containerful, cylinder, Imperial capacity unit, lay, place, pose, position, put, set, tube, tubing, United States liquid unit, vessel

  Part of: gun, hogshead

  Encyclopedia: Barrel

• 
  [American slang]
  in. to go fast; to speed while driving.
  • He was barreling along at about ninety.
  • She barreled out of here like a bat out of hell.
  
  
• 
  [Architecture]
  1.

  A weight measure for portland cement in the US, corresponding to 376 pounds net; this measure is now obsolete.

  2. (US)

  A vessel which holds 31¹/2 gal of liquid.

  3.

  That portion of a pipe having a constant bore and wall thickness.

• 
  [Business]
  noun [C]

  PORK BARREL

  1

  a large, round container, usually made of wood or metal, with flat ends and, usually, curved sides; the amount that such a container holds

  

  2

  a unit of measurement in the oil industry equal to between 120 and 159 litres:

  Oil prices rose to $60 a barrel.

  The forecast for global oil demand is 76 m barrels a day.

  3

  a unit of measurement used in the beer-making (brewing) industry equal to about 164 litres


[Oil and gas]
Barrel (bbl), a standard measure for oil and oil products. One barrel = 35 imperial gallons, 42 US gallons, or 159 litres.

• barrel in:    [American slang]Fi ...
• a barrel of fun:    [American slang]Fi ...
• barrel along:    [American slang]to ...

Examples

1. he sat on a barrel to eat and think.
2. political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
3. at one end of the barrel there was some radium.
4. he drew off a pint of beer from the barrel.
5. ben walked past the big barrels on the floor.