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barrel

noun as in cylindrical container

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Major League Baseball is filled with arcane statistics and historical quirks, but as this season barrels toward the playoffs one stat almost defies belief.

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A pitch thrown that hard and that far inside isn’t supposed to be hit on the barrel while also staying fair.

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Bankruptcy Court in Dallas said he had “too many doubts about the value” of the bank’s collateral—the more than 35,000 barrels of Stoli’s Kentucky Owl bourbon.

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The Tennessee-based chain in late August said it would return to its previous logo featuring the “Old Timer” and barrel.

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Meanwhile, U.S. oil production has climbed 45% to a record of about 13.6 million barrels a day over that same time, according to the Energy Department.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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