Barrels

Examples

• The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in 1896 was 60,960,361 barrels, the largest yield on record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As constructed to-day it is an enormous vessel (see Fig. 173), capable of holding 7,000 or more gallons, and yielding 250 barrels of sugar at a strike. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1902 the American output of cement was placed at about 21,000,000 barrels, valued at over $17,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those on rubber tires with the long barrels? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lap-welded barrel was standard until 1850, and he got together a battery of trip hammers for forging and welding his barrels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In one small apartment there were two barrels of potatoes and a third one nearly empty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When we started up the plant experimentally, and the long kiln was first put in operation, an output of about four hundred barrels in twenty-four hours was obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These guns had ten barrels revolving around a central shaft and in their developed form were capable of being fired at the rate of one thousand shots a minute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Still later Hall introduced chalk and powdered limestone into porcelain tubes, gun barrels, and tubes bored in solid iron, which he sealed and brought to very high temperatures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What is commonly called the Minié Rifle is, in fact, only a Minié Rifle Ball, for the barrels of the guns are nearly the same as the ordinary grooved rifles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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