Noun
the amount that many barrels might hold
Source: WordNetDon't bail. The best of the gold's at the bottom of barrels of crap. Randy Pausch
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. Norbert Wiener
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters
Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty barrels. Italian Proverb
Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise. Greek Proverb
If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water. Sicilian Proverb