barrelful
- noun
- /ˈbærəlˌfʊl/
- Oedipus waved away the warning and filled his shaggy chest with a barrelful of air.
Examples
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You’re going to need a barrelful.
Fiction book (1999) -
He blows a barrelful of tenor.
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I've served a barrelful of beer now
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She'll be all over you like a barrelful of monkeys With that short skirt and that tight shirt.
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I hated to do it, but I've just uprooted and thrown away a barrelful of beautiful young strawberry plants.
Blog text (29) -
Considering he suffered a concussion, some broken ribs... swallowed a barrelful of water, he's all right.
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If nutmegs grew like mussels, you'd get a barrelful for a florin.
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The factory produced a barrelful of oil each day to meet the growing demand.
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She filled the water tank with a barrelful of fresh water from the well.
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After harvesting, they stored a barrelful of apples in the cellar.
Synonyms
A standard measure of liquid often used for oil or beer
A unit for measuring liquids often used for oil and beer
A large wooden barrel that holds liquids like wine or rum
The amount of liquid a full barrel or cask holds
The amount that fills a container
A very large wooden barrel used to store liquids like wine
A large wooden barrel once used to hold wine or ale
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Morphology
Etymology
Barrelful comes from barrel + -ful; a barrel is a large wooden container and -ful means 'full of', like in cupful or spoonful. So, a barrelful is the amount that a barrel can hold.