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BARREL TESTER AND DRAINER

Specialty Definition: BARREL TESTER AND DRAINER

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Examines heads and staves of tight barrels or kegs, containing water and compressed air, to determine if they are liquid tight: Rolls and tumbles barrel to spread water over interior of barrel. Examines barrel for faulty stave joints, leaks, loose or defective hoops, and material defects, such as streaks, cross grains, wormholes, and knotholes, in stave and heading material. Marks defects with chalk and rolls barrel to COOPER (wood. container). May make minor repairs to barrel, such as plugging wormholes, knotholes, and small leaks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BARREL TESTER AND DRAINER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 52 52 45 4C      54 45 53 54 45 52      41 4E 44      44 52 41 49 4E 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000100 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#82 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0052 0052 0045 004C      0054 0045 0053 0054 0045 0052      0041 004E 0044      0044 0052 0041 0049 004E 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355252394625439535439522354838238523543483952

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