barrelling
桶装,桶式,桶状物,桶装车
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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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Each canister is a little larger than a nuclear fuel rod assembly—more like a glove around the spent fuel than the vast barrels at San Onofre—and they are shuttled down the hole in a chain of two or three.
While the price has recovered from April’s negative price plunge, per-barrel it is still down about 38% from the start of the year.
The Alberta government estimated in 2019 that the most expensive mining-style projects’ initial break-even price is as steep as $75 or $85 per barrel.
One argument the industry likes to make is that Alberta’s oil sands have dramatically reduced their emissions per barrel, which have historically been among the highest in the world.
CalGEM got revenue too — the agency is completely funded by the industry it regulates, and this year will receive 67 cents for every barrel of oil produced.
But then after three weeks or a months barrelling, you must bottle it.
This must have been stronger stuff than molasses and water, to have been worth barrelling and sending across the water.