hogshead

• The loose tobacco which had come out of the broken hogshead, they re-packed in bags: but in the course of the distress of their disastrous voyage, they had employed these bags, as they had done every thing else of the same nature, in mending their sails. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
• It requires about twenty “pots” (a local measure each weighing 64 pounds) to make a hogshead of cider; a hogshead is roughly 100 gallons, and in Worcestershire is hardly recognizable under the name of “oxsheard”—I have never seen the word in print, but the local pronunciation is faithfully represented by my spelling. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• The native genius of the poor fellow instantly broke out in a stream of generous actions, which never stopped, until the hogshead was completely emptied. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
• So she was put into a large hogshead, and securely fastened up, and then carried on board. —  Stories of New Jersey
• If she had put her valuables into her hogshead, and then had jumped in herself and had asked some of the sailors to fasten her up, there is no doubt that she would have floated ashore, if she had known how to keep the open bunghole uppermost,--which no doubt she did,--and would have saved all her possessions. —  Stories of New Jersey

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