hogshead

How To Use hogshead In A Sentence

• Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
• Turns out a Hogshead is a unit of measure equal to 2 barrels of wine.
• If you were to begin now, and to take two or three tumblersful as I do, by the time you are my age, you would have drunk fifty hogsheads of rum, and I don't know how many tons of water. The Three Midshipmen
• In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers. Ivanhoe
• I always wondered why two pipes in liquid measure were called a hogshead; now I know; it was on account of their great capacity.” Memories and Anecdotes
• But numerous cards depict slaves picking tobacco, pressing it into hogsheads for transport, and sometimes consuming it.
• She makes her presence as clearly felt among a million of her sex as does a grain of fuchsine in a hogshead of water. The Darrow Enigma
• To a hogshead of wine, add a bowlful of red wine pips dried and then boiled.
• From the 2s./hhd. duty &c. on tobacco exports, it is possible to calculate the number of hogsheads of tobacco exported annually for the year ending October 25. Leslie V. Brock: The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates
• He always gave them a hogshead of beer; and they all drank merrily to his health.