Meaning & use
barrel
A large, round wooden or metal container with curved sides, used for storing liquids or goods.
See it in a sentence
The winery aged its red wine in oak barrels for nearly two years.
Workers rolled the heavy barrel of oil across the dock toward the ship.
A note on using this word
Barrel is also a standard unit for measuring crude oil, and it names the long metal tube of a gun.
Words with a similar meaning
caskdrum
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A unit of volume used especially for measuring crude oil, equal to 42 U.S. gallons.
The price of oil rose sharply to over ninety dollars a barrel.
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