hogshead in English

noun
1
a large cask.
Within months he had joined forces with him to make their first large shipment to London: 48 hogsheads and a quarter cask, sent to Robert Blake Byass, who was to become their UK agent.

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1. Braes of Glenlivet 1989 (43%, Natural Color, France, 2005) - 260206 Braeval 23 yo 1989 (54.2%, The Whisky Barrel, Burns Malt, hogshead, cask #1074, +/-2013) - 170613 Braes O'Glenlivet 23 yo 1989/2012 (59.7%, The Golden Cask, bourbon hogshead, cask #CM 194, 228 bottles) - 190414

2. A Blob of blue smoke curled out of a hole the size of a hogshead in a steep bank overhung with alders.

3. Famous for our Bourgeois Beef Jerky, we are an old-fashioned Cajun meat market specializing in fresh cuts of meat as well as beef jerky, boudin, hogshead cheese, turkey …

4. Leaning Abstractedly over a hogshead of tallow, her dark dishevelled tresses waved in opposite directions, and a Muse (as she was) appeared to vulgar eyes, a Fury! 1878, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 12,