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/ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/ · noun
A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids..
A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.
Use carboy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carboy means A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids..
Common synonyms include demijohn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
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