barrel

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

barrel UK US [ˈbær. ə l] noun countable [ barrels ]
 
CONTAINER

1. 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.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Containers for liquids and gases
2. In the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Measurements of volume ↑General words for size and amount ↑Informal measurements of volume
 
GUN PART
3. the long part of a gun that is shaped like a tube
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Parts of guns
Idioms: a barrel of fun ▪ have somebody over a barrel
 
verb intransitive + adverb or preposition [ -ll- ] or US USUALLY [ -l- ] informal
to travel somewhere very quickly
• We were barrelling along the autobahn at 180 kph.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Moving quickly

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bbl, barrelful, drum, cask, gun barrel