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Definition of Beer barrel
1. Noun. A barrel that holds beer.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beer Barrel
Literary usage of Beer barrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1872)
"Popular tradition also says that the beer barrel was to be whipped for working
on that day. Both, we take it, are equally authentic, and either illustrates ..."
2. A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages by Ronald Edward Zupko (1985)
"But Thirty Four Gallons are reckoned a Barrel of Beer or Ale in all other places
of England. 1883 Simmonds sv: The beer barrel is 36 gallons, ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"Now Bacchus is notoriously not partial to beer; and Mr. Montagu, the advocate of
water, might sit with as good a grace astride of a beer barrel, ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"... it is equally true that Dr. Watson compares it to a beer-barrel. Perhaps your
correspondent considers this latter comparison far more apt than the ..."
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