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   1 [1841] 1985 TAYLOR 37 Each barrel [of pickled fish shall contain] two hundred pounds...weight. [1937] 1987 Evening Telegram 5 Jan, p. 6 S.S. Portia which left English Harbour on Sunday for Halifax took 926 casks of codfish, 642 one-quintal boxes of fish, and 1,529 two-quintal barrels of fish, besides 9 casks of cod oil and 11 barrels of pickled salmon. P 245-90 'We got two barrels [of cod-fish] today, not much, we've got up to six a day last week.'
   2 1987 Evening Telegram 27 Apr, p. 7 [The barrel] stood six feet high and was about 30 inches in diameter. It had a hatch in the bottom and it was strong because a man's life depended on it, 70 or 80 feet in the air. The man would go up to the bottom, push up the hatch and when he was inside the hatch would fall down and he would stand on it. That was the last barrel I made.
   3 Comb barrel chair, ~ man, ~ stove.
   1897 Christmas Review 2 "Half an Hour with the Barrel-Man on Board Steamship 'Grand Lake'." 1988 DOHANEY 15 Bertha recalled the old woman she had left downstairs sitting in the barrel chair by the stove, all hunched over in a black shawl. 1985 BUSCH 74 The other subordinate officers had to be capable--they included the second hand, 'barrelman,' who had the responsibility of spotting seals from the crow's nest [etc]. 1988 SINCLAIR (ed) 142 Protesters and their supporters brought a baseball dugout, which they walled in and equipped with a barrel stove.

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