Meanings of great barrel in English

They set me on a board, over a great barrel of sea-water.

The great barrel was opened: the biscuit and cheese were distributed.

The great barrel-cylinder of the microscope slanted sixty feet upward.

Indeed, they are wheeling them out in great barrel loads.

In other words, all the people of the world are in the great barrel of life.

Across the Channel, in back of the hill that you can see, they are cleaning the great barrel, studying charts, making reports, churning with Geopolitik.

The great barrels and wheels of the cannon loomed terribly through the smoke.

He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water.

Year after year the whole crop is sliced up, put into great barrels, and converted into sauer-kraut.

And he said, what pleased them still more, that the general would give them great barrels of rum.

The veranda and outbuildings were heavily hung with creepers, and great barrels of begonias and geraniums stood about.

We had on board several great barrels of tallow or fat, but our store was not so large that we did not have to economize.