Plural of barrel

Forms of barrel

Barrels in a sentence

• The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
• Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 81
• The cellar was a bareish room containing a long shelf and a few wine barrels.From the entry bareish
• "We'll get an axe and stave in all these barrels and the liquid will all run out", threatened the man.From the entry stave in
• Rightwing media mouthpieces and ICE get both barrels in South Park’s latest zeitgeist-capturing satire.2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The…. From the entry mouthpiece

Meaning of barrel

1. noun A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
2. noun Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.).
3. noun The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

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Questions about the plural of barrel

What is the plural of barrel?

The plural of barrel is barrels.

Is barrel countable?

Barrel is a countable noun.