barrel
/ˈbæɹəl/ 名词 B1中文： 桶、炮管、枪管
- A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum. · Near-synonym: cask· a cracker barrel
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case · the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- A venturi (in carburetion).
- A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Take her six bottles of different wine—Cyprus, sherry, and Malaga, and a barrel of Ostend oysters; get them at Borel’s, and be sure you say they are for me.”
The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.
“There’s a barrel of it over there,” said Miss Harris, shaking her bangles at it.
Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
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