English-Danish translations for barrel

• fad
• tønde
  Dengang var prisen på en tønde olie 16 amerikanske dollars. At that time the price of a barrel of oil was USD 16.
  Faktum er, at oliepriserne lige nu ligger på 100 USD/tønde. The fact is that oil prices are now at USD 100 a barrel.
  Olieprisen pr. tønde er nu på det laveste niveau nogen sinde. The oil price per barrel is now at its lowest level ever.

Definition of barrel

• 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
• The hollow basal part of a feather
• A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment
• The ribs and belly of a horse or pony
• 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
• To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels

Examples

• a cracker barrel
• the barrel of a windlass;  the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled
• Throw it into the trash barrel
• He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

Related words

• double-barrelled
• pork-barrelling
• barrelful
• barrelfish
• cracker-barrel
• barrel-eye
• barrel organ
• barrel cask
• barrel cactus