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barrel
English
Etymology
From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barr?culum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic ???????????????????????? (b?rils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear +? -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?bæ??l/, [?bæ???]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bæ??l/, [?bæ???], /?b????l/, [?b?????]
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -æ??l
Noun
barrel (plural barrels)
- (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- 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
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (archaic) A tube.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (obsolete) A jar.
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.
Synonyms
- (round vessel): cask, tun
Coordinate terms
- (round vessel): keg, vat
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
barrel (third-person singular simple present barrels, present participle barrelling or barreling, simple past and past participle barrelled or barreled)
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
- Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.
Translations
See also
- cooper
French
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.??l/
Noun
barrel m (plural barrels)
- Alternative form of baril
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derringer
English
Etymology
Named after gunsmith Henry Deringer Junior.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d???nd??(?)/
Noun
derringer (plural derringers)
- A type of very small, concealable pistol with one or two barrels, but without any loading system or magazine.
Usage notes
The spelling and capitalisation of the word has varied since the pistols were first designed, with Deringer being the original usage. In the late 1850s, misspellings added another R to the name, Derringer, which remained capitalised. Lower case versions of both spellings were in use soon after. The fifth edition Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 1937 lists the now common spelling of derringer with lower case D and a single R.
References
- Guns of the Old West, Charles Edward Chapel, 1961. Chapter VI.
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