Pl. -oes. [ad. Sp. barrica cask, barrel, keg, ? f. barra bar; cf. BARECA.] A keg, a small cask or barrel.
1607. Relat. Disc. River, in Capt. Smith’s Wks., Introd. 54. There issued out of the hart of the tree the quantity of two barricoes of liquor.
1626. Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Seamen, 5. The Cowper is … to staue or repaire the buckets, Baricoes, Cans.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, x. We had … only a barrico of water.
