, an English vessel or cask, containing 36 gallons of beer measure, or 32 gallons of ale measure. The barrel of beer, vinegar, or of liquor preparing for vinegar, ought to contain 34 gallons, according to the standard of the ale quart.
Barrel, in Clock-work, is the cylinder about which the spring is wrapped.
· 
· 
ABCDEFGHKLMNOPQRSTWXYZABCEGLMN
Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
This text has been generated using commercial OCR software, and there are still many problems; it is slowly getting better over time. Please don't reuse the content (e.g. do not post to wikipedia) without asking liam at holoweb dot net first (mention the colour of your socks in the mail), because I am still working on fixing errors. Thanks!