hogshead|hogsheads in English

noun

[hogs·head || 'hɑgzhed /'hɒgzhed]

barrel, large cask for holding liquids

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1. Hogsheads of ale and claret were set abroach in the streets to celebrate the victory.

2. 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

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

4. A Buttload is an Actual Unit of Measurement [Commonplace Fun Facts] Casks (barrels, hogsheads, butts) [Whiskey Invest Direct] 'Butt' is an actual …

5. The Butt was an English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1060 litres by various historical definitions

6. 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 …

7. Scheetz practices tight, dry, and white Coopering and creates accurate reproductions of period cooperage including hogsheads, barrels, firkins, butter churns, tubs, piggins, tankards and other coopered containers.

8. 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,