barrel

1. A round vessel or cask, of more length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves and headings, and bound with hoops. 2. The quantity which such a vessel contains. Of wine measure, the English barrel contains 31-1/2 gallons; of beer measure, 36 gallons; of ale, 32 gallons; and of beer-vinegar, 34 gallons. 3. Any hollow cylinder; a tube, as the barrel of a gun. (Webster 1882)

1897 advertisement for barrel churn.	Oak barrel with metal staves

barrel  (BW 1, 7; FB 6, 7, 15, 21-22; BPC 21; SSL 14; TLW 18, 27, 32; LTP 8)

barrel-head (TLW 32)

bean / cracker / pork (TLW 18)

cannon (FB 16)

Christmas (TLW 18, 32; LTP 9), see missionary barrel

churn (FB 17), see illustration at right

clothing "came out of a barrel" (LTP 11) - This implies that the clothes were a gift of charity.

flour (FB 7)

gun (BW 3; LHP 23)

hogshead (FB 20), see hogshead

lemonade made in (LTP 8)

missionary (LTP 23), see missionary barrel

pistol (LHP 17)

potatoes steaming in (FB 21)

rain-barrel / rain-water barrel (FB 6, 7)

sugar-barrel (FB 18)

water (THGY 13)

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