" barrel "

[Noun]  | "bar*rel" | \ ˈber-əl \

1: a round bulging vessel of greater length than breadth that is usually made of staves bound with hoops and has flat ends of equal diameter

2: the amount contained in a barrel; especially : the amount (such as 31 gallons of fermented beverage or 42 gallons of petroleum) fixed for a certain commodity used as a unit of measure

3: a great quantity

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English barayl, barel, borrowed from Anglo-French barel, baril (continental Old French barril), going back to Gallo-Romance *barrīculus, probably diminutive of *barrīca "cask, barrel" {mat|barricade:2|};

[Noun]  | "barrel cactus" 

1: any of a genus (Ferocactus) of nearly globular deeply ribbed spiny cacti of Mexico and the adjacent U.S.; also : any of several similar cacti (genus Echinocactus)

Origin: 1873 ;

[Noun]  | "barrel cuff" 

1: an unfolded cuff (as on a shirt) usually fastened by a button

Origin: 1856 ;

[Noun]  | "barrel organ" 

1: an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder studded with pegs on a series of valves that admit air from a bellows to a set of pipes

Origin: 1750 ;

[Noun]  | "barrel racing" 

1: a rodeo event for women in which a mounted rider makes a series of sharp turns around three barrels in a cloverleaf pattern

Origin: 1947 ;

[Noun]  | "barrel roll" 

1: an airplane maneuver in which a complete revolution about the longitudinal axis is made

2: a usually accidental occurrence in which a vehicle rolls completely over along its longitudinal axis

Origin: 1917 ;

[Noun]  | "barrel vault" 

1: a semicylindrical vault

Origin: 1819 ;

[Verb]  | "barrel" 

1: to put or pack in a barrel

2: to move at a high speed or without hesitation

Origin: 15th century ;

 Verbal derivative of {see: |barrel:1|barrel:1};

[Adjective]  | "bar*rel-chest*ed" | \ ˈber-əl-ˌche-stəd \

1: having a large rounded chest

Origin: 1845 ;

[Adjective]  | "crack*er-bar*rel" | \ ˈkra-kər-ˌber-əl \

1: suggestive of the friendly homespun character of a country store

Origin: 1916 ;

 From the cracker barrel in country stores around which customers lounged for informal conversation;

[Noun]  | "barrel" 

[Verb]  | "barrel" 

[Adjective]  | "cracker-barrel"