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BARRELS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The amount that many barrels might hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("barrels" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb barrel
Context examples:
He led him into the king’s cellar, and the man bent over the huge barrels, and drank and drank till his loins hurt, and before the day was out he had emptied all the barrels.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I had cherished a hope that his victims would find an opportunity to escape while filling our water-barrels, but Wolf Larsen had selected his spot well.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The researchers created filter ‘bricks’ from sandy soil, charcoal, sawdust and iron scraps, and packed these into the barrels with gravel.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
Before you could wink, Long John had fired two barrels of a pistol into the struggling Merry, and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony, George, said he, I reckon I settled you.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The dry-goods stores were not down among the counting-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loitering along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in another, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled unceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered 'how the deuce she got there'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
