barrel – English noun declension

English noun forms of barrel

Noun: barrel
Singularbarrel
Pluralbarrels

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: cask
  • a cracker barrel
  • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). [2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four. [1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 81:]
  • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:]
  • 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:]
  • the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
  • You're shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes [2010, “Beauty School”, in Chino Moreno (lyrics), Diamond Eyes, performed by Deftones:]
  • Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached. [2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 325:]
  • The barrel, which is usually from 2.0 m to 2.5 m long, and capable of lifting loads up to 120 kg, is suspended from the main housing which contains the motor gearbox unit, etc. [2013, Brian Fitt, Joe Thornley, Lighting Technology, page 118:]
  • Throw it into the trash barrel.
  • And ſhe ſaid, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but an handfull of meale in a barrell, and a little oyle in a cruſe: [...] (New International Version translation: “As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. …) [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 17:12, column 2:]
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old French barilbor.
3. Middle English barel
4. English barrel
5. 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 alternative 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'barel', Old Norse Nouns 'berill', Old English Nouns 'byrla'.

Verbs referencing "barrel"

Dutch Nouns barrel, Spanish Nouns barril, Finnish Nouns barreli, Catalan Nouns barral, Ukrainian Nouns барель.