Read full poem →Under the windy wooden piers,
See once again the bobbing barrels,
And the black sticks that fence the weirs,
Dictionary Entry
A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
In a Sentence
“a cracker barrel”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “barrels”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →bough
And gathered into barrels.
He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.
Read full poem →That brought him to that creaking room was age.
He stood with barrels round him—-at a loss.
And having scared the cellar under him
Read full poem →suffer him to be delighted. King was resolved to counteract his
sullenness, and at the expense of a few barrels of ale filled the
neighbourhood with honest merriment.
Read full poem →in a country store to wondrous tales told among the sugar
barrels. He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His
mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
Read full poem →mile off, the house containing not a drop, owing to its situation.
However, a tantalizing row of full barrels behind her back testified to a
wetness of a certain sort, which was not at that time desired.