Meaning of barrel In English

• 0 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.

• 1 the long part of a gun that is shaped like a tube

• 2 to travel somewhere very quickly:

  • We were barrelling along the autobahn at 180 kph.

• 3 a large wooden container with a flat top and bottom and curving sides that are wider in the middle

• 4 the long part of a gun that is shaped like a tube

• 5 to travel or move very fast:

  • We were barreling along at 80 miles an hour.

• 6 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

• 7 a unit of measure for dry goods and liquids that varies in size for different things and in different countries:

  • A barrel of beer in the US is 31 US gallons, and in the UK it is 36 UK gallons.

• 8 a unit of measure for oil equal to 42 US gallons or 159 litres:

  • Today oil prices reached $81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.