barrel

Meaning

Noun

1. A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
2. A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
3. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
4. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
5. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
6. A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
7. A tube.
8. The hollow basal part of a feather.
9. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
10. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
11. A waste receptacle.
12. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
13. (obsolete) A jar.
14. 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.
15. A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.

Verb

1. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
2. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
3. To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.

Concepts

barrel

cask

drum

pipe

tube

keg

tub

cylinder

bbl

channel

tank

barrelful

elongated

bucket

pail

vat

gun barrel

chamber

butt

barrels

muzzle

hit

stem

rod

coop

chimney

barreling

canon

vessel

cistern

bl

cade

quill

tree

bar

tierce

water cart

roll

roller

jacket

mantle

muff

sleeve

core barrel

podetium

stylidium

Barl. barrel

barrel bulk

bulk

boiler barrel

separator

steam manifold

oil drum

gun tube

gun-barrel

idiosoma

lens tube

gas drum

large

barrel-shaped

ovoid

etc.

pour

spill

bin

tin

point

tobacco pipe

membranophone

tambour

tympan

piston chamber

metal drum

caskful

kegful

hogshead

army

ascension

band

barren

battery

bed

bevy

bike

boar

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cete

chowder

circle

clamour

cloud

clowder

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

field

flight

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harras

herd

hirsel

hive

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

leash

mob

murder

murmuration

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

rout

school

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

sounder

span

string

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

small cask

washtub

oil barrel

waist

gun

Hyphenated as

bar‧rel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbæɹ(ə)l/

Etymology

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.