[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To put, pack, store up, or stow away, in a barrel or barrels.
1466. Mann. & Househ. Exp., 210. My mastyr sent to the kervelle iij. oxsen barellede.
c. 1525. More, De Quat. Nouiss., 74/1. Iseland loueth no butter till it bee long barrelled.
1624. Donne, Devotions, 43 (T.). That perverse man, that barrelled himself in a tub.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Caqueurs, sailors appointed to cure and barrel the herring.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., III. VIII. v. 34. Show him how … the beer [is] drawn off, barrelled.
b. often emphasized with up. Cf. next.
1631. Speed, Prosp. World, 30. Much provision … barrelled vp for longer keeping.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xxii. 347. Barrel it up, with two or three spoonfuls of good yeast.
2. gen. To store up.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, B ij. If Martin haue not barrelde vp all rakehell words.
1649. Milton, Eikon., XVI. Wks. (1851), 456. All benefit and use of Scripture, as to public prayer, should be deny’d us, except what was barreld up in a Common-praier Book.
1746. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 101. The tendrils of the cucumber … barrel up for his use, the most cooling juices of the soil.
3. To barrel off: to transfer into barrels.
1756. J. Lloyd, in W. Thompson, R. N. Advoc. (1757), 50. These … Grotts were barrell’d off.
