Barrel

['bær(ə)l] or ['bærəl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a cylindrical container that holds liquids.

(noun.) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired.

(noun.) any of various units of capacity; 'a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons'.

(noun.) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold.

(noun.) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends.

(verb.) put in barrels.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

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

(n.) A jar.

(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.

(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

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解釋/意思:

n. a cylindrical wooden vessel made of curved staves bound with hoops: the quantity which such a vessel contains (36 imperial gallons of ale and beer): a certain weight or quantity of other goods usually sold in casks called barrels: anything long and hollow as the barrel of a gun or cylindrical and barrel-shaped.—v.t. to put in a barrel.—n. Bar′rel-bulk a measurement of five cubic feet.—p.adj. Bar′relled having a barrel or barrels: placed in a barrel.—ns. Bar′rel-or′gan an organ in which the music is produced by a barrel or cylinder set with pins the revolution of which opens the key-valves and produces the music; Barrel-vault a vault with a simple semi-cylindrical roof.—adj. Bar′rel-vault′ed.

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