Citations:barrel

English citations of barrel

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(round vessel or cask):

1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
As to the barrel that had been wet, I did not apprehend any danger from that; so I placed it in my new cave, which, in my fancy, I called my kitchen; and the rest I hid up and down in holes among the rocks, so that no wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.

Upon this occasion of removing my ammunition I happened to open the barrel of powder which I took up out of the sea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had penetrated about three or four inches into the powder on every side, which caking and growing hard, had preserved the inside like a kernel in the shell, so that I had near sixty pounds of very good powder in the centre of the cask.

I left them my firearms—viz. five muskets, three fowling-pieces, and three swords. I had above a barrel and a half of powder left; for after the first year or two I used but little, and wasted none. I gave them a description of the way I managed the goats, and directions to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter and cheese.

(baseball statistic derived from angle and velocity):

2019 March 9, “What is a Barrel?”, in MLB.com‎^[1]:
The Barrel classification is assigned to batted-ball events whose comparable hit types (in terms of exit velocity and launch angle) have led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage since Statcast was implemented Major League wide in 2015.

2019 December, Sam Denomme, “The Importance of Vertical Approach Angles”, in WFU Sports Analytics‎^[2]:
According to Statcast metrics, approximately 5% of batted balls result in a “barrel”, a certain combination of exit velocity and launch angle that yield elite batting averages and slugging percentages.

2021 February 16, Mike Podhorzer, “Introducing Batter xHR/FB Rate Version 4.0: Barrel FB% Fun”, in RotoGraphs‎^[3]:
Today, let’s move along to Barrel FB%. Barrels is my most favorite metric developed by the Statcast crew because it combines exit velocity (EV) with launch angle (LA).