beer barrel
1
2.7
- noun
:
barril de cerveza
- During the festival, they rolled a giant beer barrel down the street for the parade.
- empty beer barrel
Examples
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While New Holland's Beer Barrel Bourbon might be the only bourbon aged in beer barrels, it is not the only spirit offered by a craft brewer.
Blog text (11) -
The presence of these ancestors is represented by ants around the beer barrel base.
Academic text (2007) -
It's nothing but a damn beer barrel, Steven.
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Oh, he's gonna do the beer barrel.
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Some of the Germans' new weaponry arrived hidden, appropriately enough, in empty beer barrels.
Academic text (2011) -
Priests and writers quit cleaning toilets, washing windows, and stacking beer barrels, and returned to their work.
Fiction book (1990) -
The loveliest lady will come to this, says Hamlet, no matter how thick she paints her face; the least and greatest will come to this, even world-conquering Alexander, whose "noble dust" might one day serve to stopper a beer barrel.
Fiction book (1991) -
After Sam Gilson stumbled upon the stuff on his way to join the Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, his experiments with gilsonite led him to melt it into a varnish for buggies and beer barrels.
Blog text (19) -
Stout springs to mind—but there's only one bourbon I know of that's aged in beer barrels: New Holland.
Blog text (11) -
As Mr. Smith cast an embarrassed glance at his audience and staggered towards the creek where the beer barrel cooled, Don Lucian loosened his restraining grip on Damian's arm.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
164
1.0
A large round container made of wood or metal that holds liquids such as wine and oil
57
2.0
A small barrel for storing and serving beer
10
6.1
A large barrel used to store drinks like wine or whisky
2
3.0
A large metal or wooden barrel that holds beer to store and serve it
1
7.5
A small barrel of beer used to serve a few people
A large wooden barrel once used to hold wine or ale
A very large wooden barrel used to store liquids like wine
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'beer' specifies the content or use of 'barrel', so a learner who knows both words will infer it denotes a barrel for storing or transporting beer. This noun + noun modifier pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Beer barrel shows a simple picture: a wooden barrel full of beer, often rolled to move or fitted with a tap so people can pour mugs at a festival. So, it means 'a barrel used for storing or transporting beer'.