English-Lithuanian translations for barrel
- statinėJūros dugne guli tūkstančiai tonų kovinių nuodingųjų medžiagų, esančių minose, kulkose, bombose, konteineriuose ir statinėse. Thousands of tonnes of toxic warfare agents lie on the sea bed encased in mines, bullets, bombs, containers and barrels.
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.
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