BARRELS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrels mean? 

• BARRELS (noun)
  The noun BARRELS has 1 sense:

1. the amount that many barrels might hold

  Familiarity information: BARRELS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRELS (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)

 Context examples 

He crossed to an oaken cupboard, and as he threw it open I caught a glimpse of glistening rows of parallel barrels, like the pipes of an organ.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is equal to 1,000 liters; 1,000 cubic decimeters; 10(e+6) cubic centimeters; 25.3 cubic feet; 6.29 barrels.

(Cubic Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

The filter system consists of a two-stage process that can be easily assembled with local material in water barrels.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

I cocked both barrels and levelled the shot-gun at him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We are like to have salt water upon us until we be found pickled like the herrings in an Easterling's barrels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went into the cellar; all the barrels were gone, and of the bottles a most surprising number had been drunk out and thrown away.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was only the one pistol found in the room, two barrels of which had been emptied.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I took up twenty waiters in my hand, and placed them on the table: a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other liquors slung on their shoulders; all which the waiters above drew up, as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner, by certain cords, as we draw the bucket up a well in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I don't think the Parian Psyche Laurie gave lost any of its beauty because John put up the bracket it stood upon, that any upholsterer could have draped the plain muslin curtains more gracefully than Amy's artistic hand, or that any store-room was ever better provided with good wishes, merry words, and happy hopes than that in which Jo and her mother put away Meg's few boxes, barrels, and bundles, and I am morally certain that the spandy new kitchen never could have looked so cozy and neat if Hannah had not arranged every pot and pan a dozen times over, and laid the fire all ready for lighting the minute 'Mis. Brooke came home'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and the emigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heaps of miscellaneous baggage—“lighted up, here and there, by dangling lanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a windsail or a hatchway—were crowded groups of people, making new friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing, crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into the possession of their few feet of space, with their little households arranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarf elbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wandering disconsolately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)