barrel-head

The musicians bailed the Orchestra Association out by accepting $22,895,000 in IOUs instead of cash on the barrel-head and this is the thanks it gets.

Ivan Katz: The Philadelphia Orchestra's Unfortunate Bankruptcy Filing Ivan Katz 2011

It changed hands in little pokes; even at the bars they were paying for drinks with pinches, and there wasn't a counter or barrel-head in town without its scales and weights.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

But I'd want it in gold, on the barrel-head, and I wouldn't budge an inch for anything less.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Who begat Offot, that was terribly well nosed for drinking at the barrel-head;

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Who begat Offot, that was terribly well nosed for drinking at the barrel-head;

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

It changed hands in little pokes; even at the bars they were paying for drinks with pinches, and there wasn't a counter or barrel-head in town without its scales and weights.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

But I'd want it in gold, on the barrel-head, and I wouldn't budge an inch for anything less.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

But I'd want it in gold, on the barrel-head, and I wouldn't budge an inch for anything less.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

It changed hands in little pokes; even at the bars they were paying for drinks with pinches, and there wasn't a counter or barrel-head in town without its scales and weights.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

He used the butt of a revolver in place of a hammer and soon knocked the barrel-head loose from the tree.

Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll An Old Scout