also: バーレル
barrel; barrel as a unit of volume
A unit of volume, especially familiar in contexts such as oil prices and production figures. It is a unit noun used after numbers, as in 1バレル or 一日あたり何万バレル.
Crude oil prices briefly exceeded 80 dollars per barrel.
That oil field produces about fifty thousand barrels a day.
This oil field produces one hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day.
The price of crude oil rose to eighty dollars per barrel.
樽 refers to an actual physical barrel or cask, whereas バレル in this entry is the abstract unit of volume, not the container itself.
Common katakana spelling for the volume unit; this is the higher-priority form.
Long-vowel variant given; also used for the same unit.
Katakana term for the volume unit 'barrel'; no borrowing language or detailed etymology is specified.