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برميل

النطق: /ˈbæɹ(ə)l/ | [ˈbæɹəɫ] | /ˈbæɹəl/

barrel

A barrel is a round thing that you can keep liquids in.

There was an empty barrel outside the house.

Near-synonym: cask
a cracker barrel
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

bbl, cask, v

barrels, barrell, barreling, barrelling, barreled, barrelled