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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large glass or plastic bottle, usually encased in a protective basket or crate and often used to hold corrosive liquids.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A demijohn.
  2. n. A large globular bottle of green glass, protected by an outside covering consisting either of basketwork or of a wooden box: used chiefly for containing certain acids (such as vitriol or sulphuric acid) and other highly corrosive liquids likely to act chemically upon stoneware.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large, globular glass bottle, especially one of green glass, encased in basket work or in a box and used to hold corrosive liquids.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container

Etymologies

  1. From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). (Wiktionary)
  2. Persian qarābah, from Arabic qarrāba, big jug, from qarraba, to bring near, derived stem of qaruba, to be near; see qrb in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “· A secondary fermenter - often referred to as the carboy, this should be a glass bottle that can hold at least 1-5 gallons.”

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  • “And even as the liquid flew through the air I knew it for what it was -- undiluted sulphuric acid, two gallons of it from the carboy.”

    CHAPTER XLIX

  • “And when, this morning, I saw the steward struggling with a five-gallon carboy of sulphuric acid, I never dreamed the use he intended for it.”

    CHAPTER XLIX

  • “I threw in a package of champagne yeast, air-locked the carboy, and left it.”

    Simon & Schuster: CHASING the WHITE DOG

  • “Patrick opened a filing cabinet drawer and removed a full bottle: 200ml beakers made great glasses, there was a carboy of distilled water, and every laboratory had an ice machine.”

    Simon & Schuster: Naked Cruelty

  • “I left the shop with flaked maize, Briess 6-row pale malted barley, Briess flaked rye, Weyermann rye malt, a 3-gallon carboy, three packets of Pasteur Champagne yeast, a hydrometer, and a thermometer.”

    Simon & Schuster: CHASING the WHITE DOG

  • “The photo at right is next-to-last step, siphoning the cooled-down brew into a 7-gallon glass carboy.”

    Boing Boing

  • “You should SELL that,' says Rowe, who currently has a 5-gallon glass carboy of dark spiced mead fermenting on her kitchen counter.”

    The Huffington Post: Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years

  • “I lifted the image of the beer in a carboy from Homebrew Underground”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “Racked our latest wine into the carboy (a wild-berry Shiraz, which is going to rock), and started another batch of the mango wine (since it's disappearing rapidly!).”

    May 10th, 2006

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  1. demijohn

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  1. bottle

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  • madmouth OE suggests it's after the Persian qarabah. what an eggcorn! May 18, 2009

  • chained_bear "He corked his valuable flask, observed that he had a couple of carboys of it in the store from which it must be refilled, and went on..."
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 56 Feb 27, 2008

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