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English meaning

  • barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  • butt noun A person's buttocks.
  • cask verb To store or age something, typically a drink, in a barrel.
  • keg noun A small barrel-shaped container, usually round and made of wood or metal, used to hold liquids such as beer.

Senses

桶 is used for these senses in English:

  • barrel (countable) 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.
  • barrel roll (aviation) An aerobatic flying maneuver in which the pilot causes the airplane to complete one loop in the same time that the airplane completes one roll, creating the appearance that the airplane is riding on the inside of a cylinder.
  • butt A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
  • cask A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
  • keg A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
  • register ton (nautical, obsolete) A unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m3.

barrel — full definition

  1. noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  2. noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
  3. noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
  4. verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.

butt — full definition

  1. noun A person's buttocks.
  2. noun The thicker or blunt end of something, such as a weapon or tool.
  3. noun The remaining short piece of something after most of it is used, especially a cigarette.
  4. noun The target of ridicule or jokes.
  5. verb To hit or push against something with the head.

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