barreln.
/ˈbarəl/, /ˈbarl̩/, U.S. /ˈbɛrəl/ I. A cask.† 4. abstract. Brand, quality, sort. See herring n.
1.
a. A cylindrical wooden vessel, generally bulging in the middle and of greater length than breadth, formed of curved staves bound together by hoops, and having flat ends or heads; a cask.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun]
barrelc1300
kovec1320
rubbour1362
bossc1375
rundlet1380
cade1387
kemp1391
cuve14..
keup1480
tonnel1483
colle?a1500
fostella1510
cap1519
firkett1523
cask1557
butt1572
botozio1622
rindell1640
drum1871
c1300 Judas Iscariot (Harl.) l. 23 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 107 He seȝe a barayl..Þer inne hi dude þis liþer child, and amidde þe see hit caste.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. cviij/1 Two barylles..ful of bawme.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 226 Diogenes..satte in his philosophical barrell.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. vi. 57 Place barrelles of pitch vpon the fatall stake. View more context for this quotation
1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 6 This Woods..sends over a great many Barrels of these half-pence, to Cork.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 401 A barrel of Colchester oysters, his favourite dainties.
b. With various substantives defining its specific use, as beer-barrel, brandy-barrel, herring-barrel, sugar-barrel, tar-barrel, thunder-barrel, treacle-barrel.fire-barrel: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > for specific contents
meal fat1360
butter barrel1608
beer-barrel1753
water breaker1834
blubber-cask1835
nail-keg1837
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Fire Barrels are casks of divers capacities, filled with bombs, grenados, etc...These are sometimes also called thundering barrels.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ix. 173 If they burn the Custom-House..we'll lunt like a tar-barrel a' thegither.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 312 He wadna for a' the herring-barrels in Glasgow.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 10 Their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 162 Groceries enough: sugar-barrels rolled forth into the street.
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. ii. 40 The beer barrel being empty.
c. In slang phrase over a barrel [apparently in allusion to the state of a person placed over a barrel to clear the lungs of water after being rescued from drowning] , helpless, in someone's power. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > unprotected > helpless
over a barrel1939
under the cosh1958
1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxx. 270 We keep a file on unidentified bullets nowadays. Some day you might use that gun again. Then you'd be over a barrel.
1945 N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast xv. 129 You sure have me over a barrel. You caught me red-handed.
1963 N. Freeling Because of Cats xi. 175 If he's been fool enough to get himself over a barrel, that's his business.
2. Used as a measure of capacity both for liquids and dry goods, varying with the commodity.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > barrel or cask as unit
barrel1379
kilderkin1391
puncheon1400
fat1413
cask1728
1379 MS Rec. Grocers' Company 28 a Reseyns corences i barell.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xvi. 6 An hundrid barelis of oyle.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxxiiij/2 The barell of soep xxx. galones. The barell of aell xxxij. galones. The barell of beer xxxvi galones.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 21 Corn was then at 50s. per Barrel.
1712 Act 10 Anne in London Gaz. No. 5012/1 A Barrel of Soap is to contain 256 pound.
1752 S. Reynardson in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 57 36 Gallons..were to be reckoned as a Barrel of Beer, and 32 such Gallons a Barrel of Ale.
1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 92 Whole Barrels [of gunpowder] contain 100 lb.
3.
a. By metonymy: The contents of a barrel; intoxicating liquor. Cf. ‘the bottle’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 28 For hij ne habbeþ wille..Bot in þe gut and in þe barel.
1798 W. Hutton Life & Hist. Family (1816) 104 When in liquor he was good-natured. His children knew his weak side, and omitted to ask a favour till the barrel worked.
b. (in U.S. Political slang): Money for use in a political campaign, esp. for corrupt purposes.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > funds assigned on basis of political patronage
pork1879
barrel1884
1884 Boston Herald 18 Sept. There is a plenty of evidence that the head of Mr. Lodge's barrel has already been knocked in.
1884 Savannah News Aug. It would be much better for General Butler if he would turn one of his barrels over to the Democratic campaign committee.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun]
kindeOE
i-cundeOE
mannera1225
jetc1330
colour1340
hair1387
estrete1393
gendera1398
hedea1400
savourc1400
stockc1450
toucha1500
rate1509
barrel1542
suit1548
fashion1562
special1563
stamp1573
family1598
garb1600
espece1602
kidney1602
bran1610
formality1610
editiona1627
make1660
cast1673
tour1702
way1702
specie1711
tenor1729
ilk1790
genre1816
stripe1853
persuasion1855
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 165v Twoo feloes beeyng lyke flagicious, and neither barell better hearyng, accused either other.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 14v Therefore of both barrelles, I iudge Cookes and Painters the better hearing.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 245 There meanest comrades, which are of the same bran and barrell with themselves.
1789 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) IV. 490 A committee of those Amazons stopped the Duke of Orleans, who, to use their style, I believe is not a barrel the better herring.
II. Things cylindrical or shaped like a barrel.
5.
a. A revolving cylinder or drum, round which a chain or rope is wound, in various machines and appliances; e.g. that of a capstan, jack, wheel, windlass. Hence
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan > drum or barrel of
barrel?1518
roller1609
turn-tree1653
turn-beam1679
tympanum1704
capstan-barrel1706
rope barrel1797
rope roll1811
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Some pulde at the beryll..Some howysed the mayne sayle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Moulinet à brassieres, the barrell of a Windlesse, or Fearne.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Barrel of a jack is the cylindrical part whereon the line is wound.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. *Fv Drosse, the tiller-rope..wound about the barrel of a ship's wheel.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 94 Barrel, the main piece of a capstan or steering-wheel.
b. the cylindrical box, containing the mainspring of a watch, round which the chain is wound.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of
barrel1591
motion1605
bezel1616
fusee1622
string1638
crown wheel1646
out-case1651
watch-box1656
nuck1664
watchwork1667
balance-wheel1669
box1675
dial wheel1675
counter-potence1678
pendulum-balance1680
watch-case1681
pillar1684
contrate teeth1696
pinion of report1696
watch-hook1698
bob-balance1701
half-cock1701
potence1704
verge1704
pad1705
movable1709
jewel1711
pendant1721
crystal1722
watch-key1723
pendulum spring1728
lock spring1741
watch-glass1742
watch-spring1761
all-or-nothing piece1764
watch hand1764
cylinder1765
cannon?1780
cannon1802
stackfreed1819
pillar plate1821
little hand1829
hair-spring1830
lunette1832
all-or-nothing1843
locking1851
slag1857
staff1860
case spring1866
stem1866
balance-cock1874
watch-dial1875
balance-spring1881
balance-staff1881
Breguet spring1881
overcoil1881
surprise-piece1881
brass edge1884
button turn1884
fourth wheel1884
fusee-sink1884
pair-case1884
silver bar1884
silver piece1884
slang1884
top plate1884
karrusel1893
watch-face1893
watch bracelet1896
bar-movement1903
jewel pivot1907
jewel bearing1954
1591 in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1951) 46 323 For peisinge ye spindle of ye howre wheele & ii newe bushes for ye barrell of ye same wheele.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Barrel of a clock is a cylindrical part, about which the string is wound.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 31 Barrel Cover,..a lid that snaps into a rebate in the barrel. Barrel Hollow,..the sink cut in the top plate of a watch to give freedom to the barrel... Barrel Hook,..a pin in the barrel to which the mainspring is attached.
c. the revolving cylinder of a musical box, barrel organ, etc., in which are fixed the pins that strike the keys.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ > parts of
barrel1659
musical wheel1659
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 32 Make the Musical Barrel to turn..and the Pins that are put upon the said Barrel, shall touch the keys.
1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 98 The revolving barrel of the music-box.
d. A cylindrical button used in conjunction with a loop of braid as an ornamental fastening of a coat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > button
cheese platea1665
barrel1898
1898 Daily News 12 Nov. 6/3 Frogs and barrels are adapted to the otherwise plain red coats.
1900 Daily News 29 Dec. 6/6 The fronts are fitted out with braided frogs and barrels.
6.
a. A (usually hollow) cylinder forming part of various objects; esp.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object > cylindrical part
stem1815
barrel1869
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Curry-Comb..consists of these Parts, 1. The Barrel, or Back of the Comb.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour ix. 173 The barrel (fusée), which is the hilt itself, adapted to be grasped by the hand.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 105 Barrel,..a piece of small pipe inserted in the end of a cartridge to carry the squib to the powder.
b. one forming the trunk or body, e.g. of a pump, engine-boiler, bell, feather.
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1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 17 If the Water be not high enough between the top of the Barrel and the Bucket.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 350/1 All feathers are composed of a quill or barrel.
1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church i. 4 The various parts of a bell may be described as the body or barrel, etc.
1882 S. A. Leech Let. 27 Jan. in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases (1884) 9 429 The trunk or barrel of the tree.
1884 Leis. Ho. Sept. 533/2 Three lengths of cylinder, firmly riveted together, form what is called the barrel of the boiler [of a locomotive engine].
c. slang. (A nickname for) a corpulent person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having
porknellc1540
porkling1541
porridge belly1580
tallow catch1598
woolsack1598
candle-mine1600
trillibub1600
bauson1607
panguts1617
firkin1630
porker1665
poke pudding1706
pudsy1710
jolluxa1797
fatty1797
fattener1817
rotundity1824
tun-butt1829
stout party1855
pig1858
fatlinga1861
slob1861
bladder of lard1864
butterball1877
lard-bladder1891
jelly-belly1896
tub1897
barrel1909
flop1909
pussy-gut1909
gutbucket1919
Billy Bunter1939
endomorph1940
Fatso1944
slug1959
1909 Ld. Harcourt in Daily Chron. 16 July 1/5 When that measure reached the House of Lords it was met with a barricade of barrels insufficiently disguised in robes and coronets.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy..is known as:..barrel, barrel-belly, [etc.].
7. The metal tube of a gun, through which the bullet or shot is discharged. Hence in single-barrel, double-barrel, etc., of the whole weapon.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel
firing barrel1370
ratch1575
barrel1644
ratcheta1650
gun-barrel1747
spout1879
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xi. 99 Take the barrell of a long gunne perfectly bored.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4140/3 We also took 10 Pieces of Cannon, 8 whereof were treble Barrels.
1858 W. Ellis Three Visits Madagascar iv. 96 The long tin barrel of a painted gun.
8. The belly and loins of a horse, ox, etc.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > belly
bellyc1440
barrel1703
underpart1783
venterc1790
underbody1879
underline1886
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > barrel or middle of horse
barrel1703
middle piece1843
1703 London Gaz. No. 3948/4 A dun Gelding..with a round Barrel.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 151 Lofty is his neck, And elegant his head, his barrel short.
1880 B. Harte Jeff Briggs ii His legs clasping the barrel of his horse.
9. Physiology. The cavity of the ear situated within the membrane of the tympanum.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Barrel of the Ear, a pretty large Cavity, or Hollow behind the Tympanum.
Compounds
C1.
a. Objective.
barrel-forger n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > armourer > [noun] > one who makes artillery or firearms > specific parts
stock-maker1579
stocker1641
matchmaker1643
barrel-forger1720
gun-lock maker1814
actioner1881
1720 London Gaz. No. 5873/4 William Thomas, late of White-Chappel, Barrel Forger.
barrel-maker n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper
cooperc1415
trusser1535
hooper1552
tubman1677
tubber1825
tub-thumper1872
barrel-maker1883
1883 Glasgow Herald 27 Aug. 6/4 Herring fishery..finds profitable labour to..barrelmakers.
b. Attributive (simply).
(a)
barrel-barricade n.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun]
traverse1524
barricado1596
under-traverse1598
barricade1642
traverser1645
entanglement1834
barrel-barricade1837
barricade-work1867
barricading1890
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 255 Cram the earth in barrel-barricades.
barrel-board n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for other uses
pipe-board1386
barrel-board1565
scaffold board1592
box board?1793
1565 Act 8 Eliz. ix. §2 Coopers might have bought a Thousand of Barrel-boards for twelve Shillings.
barrel-form n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > specific type
Welsh groin1778
groin-vault1825
Welsh vaulting1835
Welsh vault1840
cross-vaulting1842
rear vault1844
barrel-form1849
barrel-vault1849
cross-vault1850
Welsh groining1867
tunnel-vault-
1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. ii. 78 The earliest Norman Vaults are quite plain, and of the barrel form.
barrel-frame n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > frame
barrel-frame1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 386 A magnificent hut of barrel-frames.
(b) (= packed in barrels).
barrel-butter n.
barrel-figs n.
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1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 116 Dry or barrell Figs.
barrel-soap n.
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1710 London Gaz. No. 4674/7 English Barrel Soap for 48s. a Barrel.
c. Similative. See also 5c.
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barrel-churn n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churn
churnc1000
kirn1338
butter churn1577
churning-tub1580
barrel-churn1741
plunge churn1793
box churn1810
table churn1828
dash-churn1865
churner1888
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May viii. 130 When the Cream is ready, carefully strain it..into the Barrel-Churn.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. pl. XXII The improved barrel-churn with wheel.
1853 ‘A Lady’ Facts: or, Exper. in N.Z. iv. 34 The second churn for the larger quantity had better be a barrel churn fixed on a stand.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 74 The old-fashioned barrel-churn, the dashers of which are fixed.
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barrel-belly adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
just wombc1400
paunch?a1425
gorbelly1519
barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
pack paunch1582
swag-paunch1611
swag bellya1616
bottle belly1655
paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. The ydell and barrell bealies of monkes.
barrel-bodied adj.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump
fatc893
frimOE
fullOE
overfatOE
greatOE
bald1297
roundc1300
encorsivea1340
fattishc1369
fleshyc1369
fleshlyc1374
repletea1398
largec1405
corsious1430
corpulentc1440
corsyc1440
fulsome1447
portlyc1487
corporate1509
foggy fata1529
corsive1530
foggish?1537
plump1545
fatty1552
fleshful1552
pubble1566
plum1570
pursy1576
well-fleshed1576
gross?1577
fog1582
forfatted1586
gulchy1598
bouksome1600
fat-fed1607
meatified1607
chuff1609
plumpya1616
bloat1638
blowze-like1647
obese1651
jollya1661
bloated1664
chubbed1674
pluffya1689
puffya1689
pussy1688
sappy1694
crummy1718
chubby1722
fodgel1724
well-padded1737
beefy1743
plumpish1753
pudsy1754
rotund1762
portable1770
lusty1777
roundabout1787
well-cushioned1802
plenitudinous1803
stout1804
embonpointc1806
roly-poly1808
adipose1810
roll-about1815
foggy1817
poddy1823
porky1828
hide-blown1834
tubby1835
stoutish1836
tubbish1836
superfatted1841
pottle-bodied1842
pincushiony1851
opulent1882
well-covered1884
well-upholstered1886
butterball1888
endomorphic1888
tisty-tosty1888
pachyntic1890
barrel-bodied1894
overweight1899
pussy-gutted1906
upholstered1924
1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping I. xiv. 219 Nipper, fat, puffing, and barrel-bodied.
barrel-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective]
roundc1325
cylindriac1612
cylindrical1646
cylindraceous1676
cylindric1688
cylindrala1711
gun-barrel1747
barrelled1853
cylindriform1870
barrel-shaped1871
roller-type1900
1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) xxiv. 241 A free-swimming,·barrel-shaped ciliated body.
C2. Special combinations:
barrel-amalgamation n. (see quot.).
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 105 Barrel-amalgamation, the amalgamation of silver ores by revolution in wooden barrels with quicksilver, etc.
barrel-bellied adj. having a well-rounded belly.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of
great-wombedc1325
wombedc1325
big-bellied?c1475
gorbellieda1529
tunnisha1529
bellieda1533
gorbelly1532
tun-bellied1551
out-bellied1570
paunch-bellied1586
paunchyc1586
big-bellied1592
round-bellied1606
gutty1607
tun-gutted1607
ventripotent1611
swag-bellieda1616
tun-grown1628
bottle-bellied1646
pot-bellied1647
belly-mountained1654
pauncheda1657
sag-bellied1665
barrel-bellied1694
ventricous1702
poke pudding1705
paunch-gutted1726
pot-gutted1731
paunchfula1763
pottle-bellied1777
tunnified1806
tun-likea1813
shad-bellied1832
ventricose1843
bow-windowed1849
bloated-bellied1871
barrel-stomached1884
stomachy1888
well-stomached1896
jelly-bellied1899
narrow-gutted1903
pus-gutted1915
great-stomached1944
1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 11 The Colt, that for a Stallion is design'd..Sharp headed, Barrel belly'd.
1856 J. Grant Black Dragoon xli His barrel-bellied charger.
barrel-bird n. dialect name of the long-tailed tit.
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1865 Cornhill Mag. July 36 The rustic..call[s] the long-tailed tit..the ‘barrel-bird,’ from its making a long moss and lichen-woven nest.
barrel bolt n. a bolt made to slide into a barrel-shaped socket.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar
shuttle971
barc1175
esselc1275
slota1300
sperel13..
ginc1330
staple-bar1339
shotc1430
shuttingc1440
shutc1460
spar1596
counter-bar1611
shooter1632
drawbar1670
night bolt1775
drop-bolt1786
snibbing-bolt1844
stay-band1844
window bar1853
heck-stower1876
barrel bolt1909
latch bolt1909
panic bolt1911
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Barrel bolt.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 482/2 Among locks and fastenings the ordinary barrel or tower bolt needs no description.
1930 Engineering 2 May 564/2 Turned barrel bolts were used for connecting the brackets to the post webs.
barrel-bulk n. a measure used in estimating capacity (e.g. of a vessel for freight) equal to five cubic feet.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > measure used in estimating capacity
barrel-bulk1720
1720 J. Steuart Let. 22 Aug. in Let.-bk. (1915) 122 If William Binie Desires two barell bulk home, let him have it.
1853 Harper's Mag. Apr. 581/2 Freights from Detroit to Lake Superior ports are usually $1 the barrel bulk.
barrel cactus n. the genus Echinocactus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti
hedgehog thistle1597
Opuntia1601
mescal1709
Barbados gooseberry1756
night-flowering cereus1789
vygebosch1795
night-blooming cereus1799
rhipsalis1819
pigface1830
window plant1838
old man cactus1845
cholla1846
fish-hook cactus1846
spleenwort1846
epiphyllum1858
old man's head1858
rainbow cactus1860
green snake1864
torchwood1866
queen of the night1870
vingerpol1875
nipple cactus1876
niggerhead1877
rat's tail cactus1878
rat-tail cactus1878
Christmas cactus1880
barrel cactus1881
peyote1885
mistletoe cactus1889
schlumbergera1898
pincushion1940
opuntioid1944
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 984 The ‘nigger-head’ or ‘barrel’ cactus.
barrel-campaign n. in U.S. a political contest in which bribery is lavishly employed.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > corrupt campaign
barrel-campaign1884
1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Nov. 1 We are accustomed to ‘barrel’ campaigns here. Nobody supposes this district to be Democratic, but the Democrats depend upon carrying it with money.
barrel-chair n. U.S. an upholstered chair having a back shaped like a barrel.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1850 A. J. Downing Archit. Country Houses xii. 414 Another of the cheapest and simplest seats for a cottage is the barrel-chair.
1947 Downtown Shop. News (Chicago) 10 Feb. 15 (D.A.) Curved back barrel chairs foster that new look in fine furniture.
barrel-chest n. (see quot. 1907).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of chest
chicken breast1822
pigeon breast1837
pigeon chest1847
thoracocyrtosis1860
barrel-chest1907
thoracocyllosis-
1907 G. M. Gould Practitioner's Med. Dict. 267/2 Barrel-chest, a peculiar formation of the chest observed in cases of long-standing emphysema of the lungs.
barrel-chested adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [adjective] > chest > types of
big-chested1594
broad-breasted1647
broad-chesteda1661
open-chested1823
bluff-chested1851
barrel-chested1961
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Barrel-chested.
1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xxi. 212 The wing commander was a blunt, chunky, barrel-chested man in his early fifties.
barrel distortion n. Optics (see quot. 1953).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > optical distortions
refraction1698
suppression1702
aerial perspective1704
irradiation1834
double image1880
barrel distortion1889
pincushion distortion1892
Poggendorff illusion1898
Ponzo illusion1942
pincushioning1947
space myopia1962
pincushion1968
Müller-Lyer1972
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 38 When the ordinary view lens, giving barrel distortion, is used.
1903 C. Beck & H. Andrews Photogr. Lenses iii. 73 These two types of distortion found in single lenses are known as ‘barrel’ and ‘pin-cushion’ distortion.
1929 G. H. Gliddon Opt. Replica Human Eye 21 At 20 degrees a trace of barrel distortion developed.
1937 A. T. Witts Television Cycl. 16 Barrel Distortion, the type of distortion produced by defective optical systems that causes a square image to have rounded (convex) sides, similar to the form of a barrel.
1953 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. ix. 187 When distortion is present, the image of a rectangular object has sides which curve inwards (pincushion distortion) or outwards (barrel distortion), depending whether the magnification increases or decreases with distance from the centre of the image field.
barrel-drain n. a cylindrical brick drain.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > covered
wholve1395
whelmc1576
turf-drain1805
barrel-drain1823
tunnel1828
turf-draining1831
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 117 The contents of gun-barrel drains.
barrel-fever n. disease produced by immoderate drinking.
barrel-fish n. the black rudder-fish, Lirus perciformis, found off the U.S. coast.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Stromatoidei > lirus perciformis (barrel-fish)
blackfish1601
rudderfish1818
barrel-fish1884
log-fish1884
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 334 This fish is also called by the fishermen ‘Log-fish’ and ‘Barrel-fish’.
1885 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 191 The fishermen call them barrel-fish, though the most usual name is rudder-fish.
1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 71 The barrel-fish..secretes itself in floating barrels or boxes.
barrelful n. as much as a barrel will hold.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > barrel
barrelful1386
tunful1562
pipeful1605
kierful1879
1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 301 Thus saistow, olde barel ful of lies.
1436 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 169 To drinke a barelle fulle Of gode berkyne.
1865 Rtldg's. Mag. Boys Nov. 680 Another barrel-full of air is removed.
barrel-head n. (either) flat end of a barrel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > end
head1390
barrel-head1841
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 362 That cannot do without standing on barrel-heads, to spout.
barrel-like adj. resembling a barrel.
barrel-pen n. one with a split cylindrical shank, which can be fitted on a wooden holder.
barrel-plating n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > coating with metal > methods of
barrel-plating1911
hot dipping1913
Parkerizing1919
Bonderizing1932
metalliding1967
1911 Handbk. Electro-Plating, Polishing (ed. 4) 58 The Mechanical Plating of small articles in a barrel, revolving in a solution of the metal to be deposited, has reached a stage where developments in Barrel Plating can be looked forward to.
barrel-scraping n. the action or result of ‘scraping the barrel’ (see scrape v.); so barrel-scraper; barrel-scraping adj.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > with effort or from desperation
barrel-scraping1959
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by care or effort > by effort or from desperation
barrel-scraping1959
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > by effort > by effort or from desperation
barrel-scraper1959
1959 Observer 11 Jan. 18/6 A makeweight in a volume of barrel-scrapings.
1959 Observer 15 Feb. 21/6 These over-edited, barrel-scraping volumes.
1959 Observer 15 Mar. 20/8 As for the Sunday-night offerings [on television], they were both barrel-scrapers.
1961 Guardian 22 June 8/7 The significance which critical barrel-scraping has bestowed on him.
barrel-sewer n. (cf. barrel-drain n.).
barrel shop n. U.S. a low-class drinking-saloon.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1904 N.Y. Tribune 12 Oct. 1/3 A poisonous substitute for whiskey sold in the low ‘barrel shops’ along Tenth-ave.
barrel-stomached adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of
great-wombedc1325
wombedc1325
big-bellied?c1475
gorbellieda1529
tunnisha1529
bellieda1533
gorbelly1532
tun-bellied1551
out-bellied1570
paunch-bellied1586
paunchyc1586
big-bellied1592
round-bellied1606
gutty1607
tun-gutted1607
ventripotent1611
swag-bellieda1616
tun-grown1628
bottle-bellied1646
pot-bellied1647
belly-mountained1654
pauncheda1657
sag-bellied1665
barrel-bellied1694
ventricous1702
poke pudding1705
paunch-gutted1726
pot-gutted1731
paunchfula1763
pottle-bellied1777
tunnified1806
tun-likea1813
shad-bellied1832
ventricose1843
bow-windowed1849
bloated-bellied1871
barrel-stomached1884
stomachy1888
well-stomached1896
jelly-bellied1899
narrow-gutted1903
pus-gutted1915
great-stomached1944
1884 National Rev. Mar. 129 The Cambodgian pig is..not in the least like your..barrel-stomached..Chinese porker.
barrel-vault n. one with a simple semi-cylindrical roof.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > specific type
Welsh groin1778
groin-vault1825
Welsh vaulting1835
Welsh vault1840
cross-vaulting1842
rear vault1844
barrel-form1849
barrel-vault1849
cross-vault1850
Welsh groining1867
tunnel-vault-
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 252 Barrel-vaults prevail throughout the..building.
barrel-vaulted adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > vaulting > vaulted > specific type
ogived1611
ogee1753
barrel-vaulted1825
undervaulted1843
underpitch1875
annular vault-
1825 Ann. Reg. 1824 276*/2 Three large connected chambers, all barrel-vaulted.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vi. 214 The passage..is barrel vaulted.
barrel winding n. an armature (armature n. 4c) winding in which the end connections lie flat upon a cylindrical surface.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of winding
ring winding1887
lap winding1892
wave winding1892
slot winding1900
barrel winding1902
bar winding1903
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 583/2 For multipolar armatures with two or more layers of inductors, ‘surface’ or ‘barrel’ winding is now extensively used.
barrel-work n. (see quot.). See also barrel organ n.
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 105 Barrel-work (Lake Sup.), native copper occurring in pieces of a size to be sorted out by hand in sufficient purity for smelting without mechanical concentration.
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In figurative phrase barrel of fun (laughs, etc.): (the source of) a great deal of enjoyment or entertainment. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun]
lustc888
lustfulnessa900
queemnesseOE
mirtheOE
estec1000
winOE
queemc1175
sweetness?c1225
solace1297
dutea1300
lustinga1300
joyingc1300
jollityc1330
lustiheadc1369
lustinessc1374
sweet1377
voluptyc1380
well-pleasinga1382
pleasancec1385
pleasurea1393
volupta1398
easementc1400
pleasingc1400
complacencec1436
pleasec1475
satisfaction1477
likancea1500
oblectation1508
beauty1523
aggradation1533
pleasurancec1540
joc1560
likement1577
contentment1587
beloving1589
gratification1598
savouriness1599
entertain1601
pleasedness1626
well-apaidness1633
well-pleasedness1633
pleasingness1649
complacency1652
adlubescence1656
enjoyment1665
volupe1669
musica1674
pleasantry1740
barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure
honeycombOE
sweetness?c1225
dainty1340
sweet1377
delicec1390
lust1390
pleasancec1390
pleasingc1390
well-queema1400
well-queemnessa1400
douceurc1400
delectation?a1425
pleasure1443
pleaserc1447
delectabilitiesa1500
deliciositiesa1500
honeydew1559
delicacy1586
fancy1590
sugar candy1591
regalo1622
happiness1637
deliciousness1651
complacence1667
regalea1677
sweetener1741
bon-bon1856
Bones1869
jam1871
true love1893
nuts1910
barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915
G-spot1983
1915 Dial. Notes 4 243 I had a barrel of fun when I went to Maccasin.
1939 L. Brown Beer Barrel Polka 4 Roll out the barrel We'll have a barrel of fun.
1977 Washington Post 8 June b1 No one has ever accused Princess Anne of being a barrel of laughs.
1981 Verbatim Spring (Bk. Club Catal.) 3/3 (advt.) A wonderful object to..have a barrel of fun with.
1986 Parents Sept. 72/3 What they haven't bargained for is a wife who is so tired..that she's even less of a barrel of laughs than she was while pregnant.
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Surfing. The hollow cylindrical space which forms within a breaking wave between the crest, the face, and the foot, often hiding from view a surfer riding the wave; = tube n. 11b. Cf. earlier barrel roll n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1975 Surfer Aug. 75 (heading) In search of warm barrels.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 194 Instead of pulling out the back of the wave, I decided to race the second section. I back-doored the barrel and raced under the lip.
1995 Independent 24 Jan. 17/6 It'll never be a substitute for a spitting 12-foot barrel at Pipeline.
2014 Surfer Apr. 68/1 A fast drop behind the peak followed by a quick bottom turn into the barrel.
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barrel hoop n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vi. 295/2 Barrel Hoops, made of Hassel Staves cloven, and Twigged together.
1716 J. Steuart Let. 26 Oct. in Let.-bk. (1915) 28 John Steuart desires you Ship ten thousand Barrell hupes. for his acct.
1854 G. F. Train Amer. Merchant 317 Even old barrel hoops and barrel staves, are being piled up to be taken away.
1924 M. Webb Precious Bane i. i. 11 There is such a plenty of rushes at Sam, and old Beguildy's missus was a great one for plaiting them on rounded barrel hoops.
2010 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 6 July b1 The ironworks used a water-powered flywheel to roll iron into sheets, which were cut to make wheel rims, barrel hoops, blacksmith's iron, and nails.
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barrel stave n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels
stavea1398
staff1531
barrel stave1549
hogshead stavec1580
pipe stavec1580
lag1659
laggin1825
noggin-stave1855
staver1891
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 184 The barell staues of the toune were perfectly ioyned.
1656 T. Tucker in Misc. Sc. Burgh Rec. Soc. (1881) 26 Whence [from Ireland] they bring hoopes, ronges, barrell staves, meale, oates, and butter.
1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) II. iv. viii. 492 The importation of pipe, hogshead and barrel staves.
1854 G. F. Train Amer. Merchant 317 Even old barrel hoops and barrel staves, are being piled up to be taken away.
1992 S. Holloway Courage High! ii. 17/1 The barrel staves..were made of non-resinous oak.
2010 Cape Argus (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Entertainment section) 3 Each bottle of Grand Constantia comes packed in oak shavings in an elegant oak casket made from old barrel staves.
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barrel arbor n. Watchmaking and Clockmaking the central axis of the barrel, around which the mainspring is coiled; cf. sense 5b.
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1773 T. Hatton Introd. Clock & Watch Work i. 164 Upon one end of the barrel arbor must be fixed a wheel of the same size and number of teeth of one fixed on the axes..as the spring by its force will go round the axes in the time proposed.
1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lxxxi. 110 The great wheel of a weight-clock rides on the barrel arbor.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 158 By the act of winding a watch or clock with a going barrel the barrel arbor is turned round and round till nearly the whole of the spring is drawn away from the rim of the box and coiled round the arbor.
1972 H. C. Kelly Clock Repairing as Hobby x. 107 Give the barrel arbor on the opposite end a sharp tap on some hard surface... The mainspring need not be removed except in the case of breakage.
2005 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 28 Oct. The ratchet wheel turns the barrel arbor, which creates a tightening tension in the spring.
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barrel bag n. (a) Jamaican a bag having the capacity of a flour barrel (rare); (b) a bag (esp. a holdall or handbag) having a cylindrical shape.
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1907 W. Jekyll Jamaican Song & Story xxviii. 90 Barrel bag, a bag of the capacity of a flour-barrel.
1926 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. 6/4 (advt.) The barrel bag is another example of the sort of bag for which Jay-Thorpe has become renowned. Models in black or tan.
1985 Radio Times 7 Sept. 55/3 (advt.) Handy zipped barrel bag with adjustable shoulder strap.
2011 M. Horlock Bk. of Lies 301 His dark eyes danced over to the wardrobe. There was a beaten-up barrel bag beside it, with clothes hanging out of it.
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barrel jumper n. chiefly North American a person who participates or competes in barrel jumping.
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1897 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 7/3 The brothers Deonze, trick barrel jumpers.
1916 Manitoba Free Press 29 Feb. 6/4 (caption) Phil Taylor, champion skater and barrel jumper of Western Canada, who will perform at the Carnival to be held tonight at the Amphitheatre Rink.
2011 Skiing Heritage Sept. 27/2 Natalie grew up across the street from the famous speed skater and barrel jumper Edmund Lamy.
barrel jumping n. chiefly North American any of various types of competition or entertainment in which participants jump over (or occasionally into) a number of barrels; esp. a sporting event in which ice-skaters attempt to jump over barrels laid in a row along the ice, the winner being the one who clears the highest number of barrels.
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1874 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 27 June Thirty dollars was appropriated to be distributed into three prizes for ‘barrel jumping’.
1896 Manitoba Morning Free Press 10 Mar. 4/6 It is also hoped that Champion McCulloch will do some Fancy Skating and Barrel Jumping.
1950 Times 25 Feb. 8/5 Skating is unique... At present comic or grotesque turns, and the obviously pure athletics such as barrel jumping, tend to receive the greatest appreciation.
1997 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 1 Oct. n5 The Hopewell woman is a former rodeo rider. ‘I did the barrel jumping,’ she said.
2011 Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 28 July d11 He was raised in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he excelled at speed skating and barrel jumping.
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barrel race n. now chiefly North American any of various types of race in which a barrel is used in some way; (in later use esp.) a rodeo event (usually for women) in which each competitor rides a horse in a set pattern around three barrels in the shortest possible time.
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1857 Standard 23 Sept. 7/4 In the barrel race a number of empty barrels are floated..and at a given signal each competitor has to mount his tub.
1874 Boston Daily Advertiser 21 Feb. ‘Barrel races’ on skates are the order of the day at Montreal just now. The competitors have their bodies encased in barrels.
1911 Irish Times 7 Jan. 9/2 The following were the successful competitors:—Lighted candle race (girls), Miss Edwarda Roche Kelly; musical chairs, Miss Eileen O'Shea; barrel race (boys), Master J. Cooper.
1935 Washington Post 21 July ix. 1/5 Demonstrating her skill on horseback, she placed second in a barrel race against ten cowboys a few weeks ago.
2010 T. Walker & M. Walker Contrary Creek iii. 34 Dad would be paired with Joe Ortega in team-roping, B.J. would be running the barrel races, and Mom and I would be cheering them on.
barrel racer n. chiefly North American a person who competes in barrel races; (also) a horse used in barrel racing.
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1909 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 22 Jan. 12/3 The race at the roller skating rink last night was a great race... William Stout..is the champion barrel racer of this city.
1948 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 6 July b1/2 (caption) Wanda Gabriel, who doubles as barrel racer in the rodeo and bank file clerk.
1998 J. Collier Horse called Poppyseed i. 9 She's yours. First-class barrel racer. Her name is Peaches. Isn't that some name for a horse?
2010 J. Kelly Winds of Change 74 Lana's father is credited with bringing the first quality quarter horses to Oklahoma, and Lana is a world champion barrel racer.
barrel racing n. now chiefly North American the holding of barrel races; the practice of competing in barrel races.
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1851 Bristol Mercury 30 Aug. 8/3 Signor Ricardo..will perform the ‘sports of Atlas’, and the celebrated ‘spade dance’, followed by wonderful barrel racing and cask evolutions extra-ordinary.
1947 Eagle Lake (Texas) Headlight 30 May Three big Wild West Rodeos are planned, with..barrel racing and wild mare racing.
2002 Western Horseman Jan. 32 Florida Joe Jack, now retired from barrel racing, spends his time as a lesson horse for novice riders of all ages and abilities.
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barrel roof n. a roof or ceiling with a semicylindrical form; cf. barrel-vault n. at Compounds 2.
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1849 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 13 Dec. The ceiling of the chancel is a beautiful specimen of a cradle or barrel-roof, showing the principals and beams.
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 24 328 In prehellenic architecture most notable examples of these long barrel roofs, like the tops of prairie wagons, must have covered the great halls of Troy II.
2007 R. Peat tr. A. Ritter Smart Materials 181 Hamburg architects Marco and Alexander Duchow had been commissioned to give the historic room, where heavy looms once worked under a barrel roof, a more modern character.
barrel-roofed adj. (of a building) having a barrel roof.
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1855 Ecclesiologist Feb. 43 The commonest type of French Romanesque Mr. Petit believes to be the barrel-roofed churches of Auvergne.
1975 New Society 14 Aug. 363/2 The rubble-walled, barrel-roofed, thatched cottage.
2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) v. 174 The coldly lit, cinderblock supermarket, a barrel-roofed supershed that was the hub of the rural community.
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barrelv.
/ˈbarəl/, /ˈbarl̩/, U.S. /ˈbɛrəl/ 1.
a. transitive. To put, pack, store up, or stow away, in a barrel or barrels.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles
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pokea1425
pipe1465
barrel1466
cask1562
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basket1582
crock1594
cade1599
maund1604
impoke1611
incask1611
inflask1611
insatchel1611
desk1615
pot1626
cooper1746
kit1769
vat1784
pannier1804
vial1805
flask1855
tub1889
ampoule1946
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in a receptacle > specific
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tank1900
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 210 My mastyr sent to the kervelle iij. oxsen barellede.
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 74 Iseland loueth no butter till it bee long barrelled.
1624 J. Donne Deuotions iii. 43 That peruerse man, that barrell'd himselfe in a Tubb.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. *D Caqueurs, sailors appointed to cure and barrel the herring.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 340 Show him how..the beer [is] drawn off, barrelled.
b. often emphasized with up. Cf. barrelet n.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [verb (transitive)]
barrel1631
cellar1677
larder1904
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)]
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to put upc1330
to lay up?a1366
bestow1393
to set up1421
reserve1480
powder1530
store1552
uplay1591
garnera1616
storea1616
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stock1700
to salt down1849
reservoir1858
tidy1867
larder1904
1631 J. Speed Prospect most Famous Parts World 30 Much provision..barrelled vp for longer keeping.
1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xxii. 347 Barrel it up, with two or three spoonfuls of good yeast.
2. gen. To store up.
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1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij If Martin haue not barrelde vp all rakehell words.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xvi. 149 All benefit and use of Scripture, as to public prayer, should be deny'd us, except what was barreld up in a Common-praier Book.
1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 101 The tendrils of the cucumber..barrel up for his use, the most cooling juices of the soil.
3. to barrel off: to transfer into barrels.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > from one vessel to another > draw off into another vessel > into barrels
to barrel off1756
1756 J. Lloyd in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 50 These..Grotts were barrell'd off.
4. intransitive. To move or travel quickly, esp. in a motor vehicle. Frequently with adverb (phr.). Also figurative. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > at speed
smoke1697
highball1911
to hit it1911
barrel1930
1930 Amer. Speech 5 305 Barrel, make haste or hurry, or cause to make haste. Used especially of vehicles. ‘They went barreling up the hill for dinner.’
1943 Yank 3 Dec. 9 We dove for that, sweating bullets as I barreled over Shimushu at 800 feet full throttle.
1957 New Yorker 2 Nov. 47/1 He thought nothing of barrelling down to Munich at eighty miles an hour.
1963 J. Lusby in ‘B. James’ Austral. Short Stories 237 A Hurri was plunging abreast of me, barrelling.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxv. 192 I heard him barrelling by on my starboard.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 June 31/5 Gravel trucks ‘barrelling’ through a residential area are worrying the parents of children.
1984 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Oct. 165/1 Deng Xiaoping barreled on down the capitalist road last week—but he might be headed for a collision.
1985 Truck & Driver June 43/2 For lap after lap he tried, coming faster out of Clark Curve on the outside, and barreling along Brabham straight.
Draft additions December 2016
transitive (in passive). Surfing. To be completely enclosed inside the tube or barrel of a wave while surfing (see barrel n. Additions). Usually in to get barrelled.
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1982 Surfing June 46/1 You can..burn water across the cove,..get barreled coming across in front of the pinnacle.
1991 A. Martin Walking on Water (1992) xxiv. 91 ‘Look at this guy,’ said Callahan, peering through the viewfinder... ‘He's getting barrelled out of his mind.’
2012 Guardian 14 July (Travel section) 4/5 Hand planing is..the closest I've come to being barrelled (riding inside the tube of a wave) in more than five years of surfing.
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