Meanings
nounbeerbarrel (plural beerbarrels)
plural beerbarrels · alternative beer barrel · alternative beer-barrel
- A barrel in which beer is kept; a keg.
The hill-folk that dwell in this mount are well known in all the villages round, and no one ever omits making a cross on his beer-barrels, for the Trolls are in the habit of slipping down from Hjulehöi to steal beer.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 187
Origin
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