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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.
  • cask verb To store or age something, typically a drink, in a barrel.
  • kit noun A set of equipment, tools, or personal items packed together for a particular purpose, such as a soldier's gear or a workman's tools.
  • ton noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).
  • zillion noun An extremely large, unspecified number.

Senses

ton is used for these senses in English:

  • barrel Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun#Noun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
  • 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.
  • cask A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
  • hundred thousand The cardinal number 100,000.
  • kit A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
  • metric ton (chiefly, _, US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
  • ton Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
  • zillion (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).

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.
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