In her pantry, she filled barrels with flour and sugar, much like New England dwellers a hundred or more years before her.

Men were filling barrels with water, to put out fires.

We spent near the whole day in Bingtown, filling buckets and barrels with water.

The dairy farmers would fill barrels with milk in the morning and bring it to market on a wagon.

As a matter of fact, they used to fill barrels with this water for long sea voyages.

He spent a year at a fly-by-night outfit, filling barrels with hazardous waste, then answered a want ad for Gianelli's.

There were fish to be taken, too, and enough were netted to fill several barrels.

Robin saw it as he filled buckets and barrels full of water to be loaded onto wagons and carried out to the wall.

He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water.

Another practice is attested at the time of eclipse; families fill barrels with water to reduce the alleged heat of the moon.