barrel
木桶,桶,桶装,筒子
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- : a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- : the quantity that such a vessel of some standard size can hold: for most liquids, 31½ U.S. gallons; for petroleum, 42 U.S. gallons; for dry materials, 105 U.S. dry quarts. Abbreviation: bbl
- : any large quantity: a barrel of fun.
- : any container, case, or part similar to a wooden barrel in form.
- : Ordnance. the tube of a gun.
- : Machinery. the chamber of a pump in which the piston works.
- : a drum turning on a shaft, as in a weight-driven clock.
- : Horology. the cylindrical case in a watch or clock within which the mainspring is coiled.
- : Ornithology Obsolete. a calamus or quill.
- : the trunk of a quadruped, especially of a horse, cow, etc.
- : Nautical. the main portion of a capstan, about which the rope winds, between the drumhead at the top and the pawl rim at the bottom.
- : a rotating horizontal cylinder in which manufactured objects are coated or polished by tumbling in a suitable substance.
- : any structure having the form of a barrel vault.
- : Also called throat. Automotive. a passageway in a carburetor that has the shape of a Venturi tube.
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bar·reled, bar·rel·ing or bar·relled, bar·rel·ling.
- : to put or pack in a barrel or barrels.
- : to finish by tumbling in a barrel.
- : Informal. to force to go or proceed at high speed: He barreled his car through the dense traffic.
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bar·reled, bar·rel·ing or bar·relled, bar·rel·ling.
- : Informal. to travel or drive very fast: to barrel along the highway.
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Upon harvest, the bags of mycelium were extracted in large barrels full of alcohol to produce the cure for the bees.
Both Rystad Energy and Wood Mackenzie, the Edinburgh-based energy consultancy, put the break-even price for existing oil-sands production at around $45 per barrel, with some projects able to keep the lights on in the $20 to $30 range.
Since those averages are currently only recorded through June 2020, revenue calculations for 2020 averaged oil barrel prices for the first six months of the year.
The tubs are made of a strong, lightweight plastic, much like the standard food barrels you get from outfitters, only smaller.
Typewriter factories were converted to produce rifle barrels, while those that couldn’t went on making typewriters exclusively for the government.
That clear spirit is what goes into every barrel of The Macallan.
And for Scotch in particular—which can spend decades in the barrel—wood is critical to the finished spirit.
Their legendary barrel aging program is unique, even among Scottish distilleries, for its range of natural color expressions.
Gelhaus proceeded to fire eight shots at Gonzalez, striking him seven times, when he said Gonzalez raised the barrel.
On his knees, he pulls out a gun and places the barrel inside his mouth.
One hundred to the right barrel—nothing left for the second barrel!
It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
A Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or pieces of anything else which has contained it.
In the fall the barrel of his rifle had been so covered with dead leaves and dust that he could not take aim.
The second barrel was discharged with no better result, except that a splinter of its horn was knocked off.