barrel

     

A barrel or cask is a hollow cylinrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. Someone who makes such barrels is known as a cooper. Contemporary barrels are also made of aluminium and plastic.

Trivia about barrel

  • It holds 31 to 42 gallons of a liquid -- oil for example
  • Staves are bound to form one of these containers of rather fun monkeys
  • If you're at a disadvantage, you're "over" one of these
  • To discourage their use in holdups, one leading maker of BB guns is painting this part of toy guns orange
  • (Alex reports from Niagara Falls.) In 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Taylor became the first person to go over the falls in one of these; she made it, but I'm gonna pass
  • For most liquids, it's equal to 31.5 gallons
  • A unit of commerce, it's 42 gallons of crude oil
  • Rustic or homespun:cracker-
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of an oil pumpjack in Oklahoma City.) The pumpjack has to pump 42 gallons of oil out of the ground to equal one of these units
  • For petroleum, 42 U.S. gallons is one of these units
  • 42 gallons of crude oil equals one of these units
  • It's what's rolled out in the following:
  • This container made of staves is a standard dry measure for most produce but is smaller for cranberries