Hogshead

Quick meaning: Hogshead is a noun meaning A large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

Meaning

A large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

More Meanings

1. (British) A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52+¹⁄₂ imperial gallons (a half pipe).

Example Sentences

So set me down as one that will refuse to come into your treaty, though you should smoke a hogshead of tobacco over it.

[...] Now the Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Maſt, and anon ſwallowed with yeſt and froth, as you'ld thruſt a Corke into a hogſhead.

[...] their vessels for use are made some of clay, of which sort some are so great as that they will containe more then one hogshead of water.

Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.

Word Forms

• hogsheads

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cask, hobbit, hoghouse, hutch, hophead, hesp.

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