Difference between Barrel and Barrelful

What is the difference between Barrel and Barrelful?

Barrel as a noun is 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. while Barrelful as a noun is as much as a barrel will hold.

Barrel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 1/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. A jar. 1 Kings xvii. 12. A tube. The hollow basal part of a feather. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1). A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment. A waste receptacle. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

Example sentence: We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Barrelful

Part of speech: noun

Definition: As much as a barrel will hold.

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