I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a barrel of beer (= a large container containing beer )
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He bought a barrel of beer for the party.
a beer barrel/keg (= a large container for beer )
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They rolled empty beer barrels along the street.
barrel organ
pork barrel
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pork-barrel spending
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gun
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The menace of those long gun barrels was sobering.
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The four desperadoes took off after us, running up the road as their gun barrels glinted in the light.
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All he was aware of was the deathly cold of the gun barrel .
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It appeared Mr Prescott then put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
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From part of this twelve gun barrels were forged and sent to Enfield, but they did not show the desired improvement.
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She obeyed instinctively, the coldness of the gun barrel chilling her skin.
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The shattered side window was punched through and a gun barrel appeared.
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A typewriter was as individual as a fingerprint, or a set of teeth, or a gun barrel scoring a bullet.
oak
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Maturation: fine red wines may be matured in oak barrels for one to two years.
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They aged their tequila in oak barrels for longer periods.
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This particular whisky is aged in oak barrels used previously for sherry.
pork
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With the UDCs we find a very straight forward pork barrel subsidizing of particular development capital interests through the use of public resources.
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The second is the desire by some elected officials to retain control over the pork barrel , through line items.
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This is known as the politics of the pork barrel .
vault
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It has a fine room with a barrel vault .
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The naos has a painted barrel vault and the pro-naos a flat-timber roof.
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The transepts have barrel vaults and the east end a semi-circular vault.
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Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
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The other four domes are supported in a like manner and short barrel vaults connect one dome to another.
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The hall was covered by an intersecting barrel vault and was divided into three bays.
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The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault , a clerestory but no triforium.
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Inside, the crossing piers are cut back and a wooden barrel vault extends across all four arms of the cross.
■ VERB
roll
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After she had rolled the empty barrels back into the garage, she went inside and called the bus terminal.
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Men rushed in and began rolling out barrels of powder to be taken to the casemates where the gun crews were stationed.
scrape
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Has Hollywood scraped the barrel for bimbos?
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Unions were bargaining for dental insurance, as if scraping the barrel to come up with new benefits.
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But were Channel 4 scraping the smoking barrel ?
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At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lock, stock, and barrel
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He moved the whole company, lock , stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
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The Knolls have owned the town lock , stock, and barrel for 15 years.
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They sold everything lock , stock, and barrel.
scrape (the bottom of) the barrel
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At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel.
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Has Hollywood scraped the barrel for bimbos?
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Unions were bargaining for dental insurance, as if scraping the barrel to come up with new benefits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The area may contain up to 2 billion barrels of oil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At farmhouse level, cider is hard stuff to control, in the barrel or in the head.
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Each new barrel costs £1.50; they are normally only used for one race and there are 50 barrels on a raft.
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He saw the barrels on the truck and quick-counted more than fifteen.
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In late August, after testing the cataract with an empty barrel , he announced that he would go over him-self.
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Thérèse felt her way around a barrel as tall as she was.
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That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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When it snows in Boston, residents litter the streets with old furniture, barrels and a rusty washing machine or two.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lock, stock, and barrel
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He moved the whole company, lock , stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
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The Knolls have owned the town lock , stock, and barrel for 15 years.
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They sold everything lock , stock, and barrel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smith barreled into him, knocking him over.
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The train barreled down the tracks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For barreling into homeroom just as the bell rings.
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Instead of swerving right, I swerved left, barreling straight into him with the fender.