barrels

     

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 barrels

  • Bowyers make bows & coopers make these
  • Young's Brewery claims London's last remaining cooperage, where these are made & repaired
  • The arrangement of these on a shotgun may be side-by-side or over-and-under