—barrel /ˈbær.əl/
noun [C] (CONTAINER)
F0 a large container, made of wood, metal, or plastic, with a flat top and bottom and curved sides that make it fatter in the middle:
» They drank a whole barrel of beer (= the contents of a barrel) at the party.Thesaurus+: ↑Containers for liquids and gasesF0 In the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres.
Thesaurus+: ↑Measurements of volume , ↑General words for size and amount , ↑Informal measurements of volumenoun [C] (GUN PART)
► F0 the long part of a gun that is shaped like a tubeThesaurus+: ↑Parts of gunsverb [I, + adv/prep] (-ll- or US USUALLY -l-) INFORMAL ↑Verb Endings for barrel
► F0 to travel somewhere very quickly: » We were barrelling along the autobahn at 180 kph.Thesaurus+: ↑Moving quickly