Difference between Barrelful and Barrel

What is the difference between Barrelful and Barrel?

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

Barrelful

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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: Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

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