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barrel — [bar′əl, ber′əl] n. [ME barel < OFr baril < ML barillus < ?] 1. a large, wooden, cylindrical container with flat, circular ends and sides that bulge outward, made usually of staves bound together with hoops 2. the capacity or contents of … English World dictionary
Fish (Surf) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Fish … Wikipédia en Français
Fish (planche de surf) — Fish (surf) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Fish … Wikipédia en Français
Barrel — For other uses, see Barrel (disambiguation). For the use of oak aging barrels in wine, see Oak (wine). Traditional oak barrels in Chile … Wikipedia
barrel — 1) a measure of liquid volume, 119.24 litres or 158.99 litres, 31.5 U.S. gallons or 42 U.S. gallons, 262.8 lb water or 34.97 Imperial gallons, but can vary 2) a rounded wooden container used to pack fish. A barrel of fish can be 200 pounds or… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Barrel (unit) — bbl redirects here. For other uses, see BBL (disambiguation). A barrel is one of several units of volume, with dry barrels, fluid barrels (UK beer barrel, U.S. beer barrel), oil barrel, etc. The volume of some barrel units is double others, with… … Wikipedia
Barrel (volume) — The barrel is the name of several units of volume, generally in the range of about 100 200 L (30 50 US gallon).Dry goods* US dry barrel: 7,056 cubic inches ( 3.28 bushel / 115.6 litres). **Defined as “length of stave 28.5″, diameter of head… … Wikipedia
barrel fish — Rudder Rud der, n. [OE. rother, AS. r[=o][eth]er a paddle; akin to D. roer rudder, oar, G. ruder, OHG. roadar, Sw. roder, ror, Dan. roer, ror. [root] 8. See {Row} to propel with an oar, and cf. {Rother}. ] 1. (Naut.) The mechanical appliance by… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
barrel — /bar euhl/, n., v., barreled, barreling or (esp. Brit.) barrelled, barrelling. n. 1. a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends. 2. the quantity that such a vessel of… … Universalium
barrel — 1. (bbl or brl or bl) a commercial unit of volume used to measure liquids such as beer and wine. The official U. S. definition of the barrel is 31.5 gallons, which is about 4.211 cubic feet or 119.24 liters. This unit is the same as the… … Dictionary of units of measurement
