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Barrel
A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditionally, the barrel was a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of 36 imperial gallons (160 L; 43 US gal). Wine was shipped in barrels of 119 litres (31 US gal; 26 imp gal).
Modern wooden barrels for wine-making are either made of French common oak (Quercus robur) and white oak (Quercus petraea) or from American white oak (Quercus alba) and typically have standard sizes: “Bordeaux type” 225 litres (59 US gal; 49 imp gal), “Burgundy type” 228 litres (60 US gal; 50 imp gal) and “Cognac type” 300 litres (79 US gal; 66 imp gal). Modern barrels and casks can also be made of aluminum, stainless steel, and different types of plastic, such as HDPE.
Someone who makes barrels is called a “barrel maker” or cooper. Barrels are only one type of cooperage. Other types include, but are not limited to: buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, kegs, kilderkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers.
Barrels have a variety of uses, including storage of liquids such as water and oil, fermenting wine, arrack, and sake, and maturing beverages such as wine, cognac, armagnac, sherry, port, whiskey, and beer. The term can also refer to roughly cylindrical containers made of modern materials like plastic.
Cask (noun)
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
Cask (noun)
A casket; a small box for jewels.
Cask (noun)
obsolete form of casque
Cask (verb)
To put into a cask.
Barrel (noun)
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. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
“a cracker barrel”
Barrel (noun)
The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
Barrel (noun)
A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
“the barrel of a windlass;”
“the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.”
Barrel (noun)
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
Barrel (noun)
A tube.
Barrel (noun)
The hollow basal part of a feather.
Barrel (noun)
The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
Barrel (noun)
A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
Barrel (noun)
A waste receptacle.
“Throw it into the trash barrel.”
Barrel (noun)
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
Barrel (noun)
A jar.
Barrel (noun)
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.
Barrel (verb)
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Barrel (verb)
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
“He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.”
Cask (noun)
a large container like a barrel, made of wood, metal or plastic and used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks
“the wine is stored in oak casks”
Cask (noun)
the quantity of liquid held in a cask
“a cask of cider”
Barrel (noun)
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”
Barrel (noun)
a barrel together with its contents
“a barrel of beer”
Barrel (noun)
a measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 litres) for oil
“the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day”
Barrel (noun)
a tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen
“a gun barrel”
Barrel (noun)
the belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse
“a Welsh mountain pony with a barrel like a butt of wine”
Barrel (verb)
drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control
“we barrelled across the Everglades”
Barrel (verb)
put into a barrel or barrels
“when the young spirit is barrelled, it absorbs some of this flavour”