As for washing dishes, Mr. Harrison never made any pretence of doing it unless a rainy Sunday came. Then he went to work and washed them all at once in the rainwater hogshead, and left them to drain dry.
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Hogshead
//ˈhɒɡzˌhɛd//
Synonyms for "hogshead" (7 found)
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34 translations across 17 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 大桶 noun (large barrel or cask)
Danish
2 entries- oksehoved noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- oksehoved noun (large barrel or cask)
Dutch
4 entries- okshoofd noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- okshoofd noun (large barrel or cask)
- oxhoofd noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- oxhoofd noun (large barrel or cask)
Estonian
1 entries- aam noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
Galician
2 entries- bocoi noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- bocoi noun (large barrel or cask)
German
2 entries- Oxhoft noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- Oxhoft noun (large barrel or cask)
Ido
1 entries- barelego noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
Middle English
2 entries- hoggeshed noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- hoggeshed noun (large barrel or cask)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- oksehode noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- oksehode noun (large barrel or cask)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- oksehovud noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- oksehovud noun (large barrel or cask)
Polish
2 entries- okseft noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- okseft noun (large barrel or cask)
Portuguese
3 entries- hogshead noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- meia pipa noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- tonel noun (large barrel or cask)
Russian
2 entries- хогсхед noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- хогсхед noun (large barrel or cask)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- tocasaid noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- tocasaid noun (large barrel or cask)
- togsaid noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- togsaid noun (large barrel or cask)
Spanish
1 entries- bocoy noun (large barrel or cask)
Swedish
2 entries- oxhuvud noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
- oxhuvud noun (large barrel or cask)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Bơrin noun (measure of capacity for liquids)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
As soon as the liquor is in the hogshead, the yeast, or fermenting principle, is put into it, stirred for some moments, and then left to itself. A liquor as rich as the above described ferments with force, and runs with rapidity through all the periods of fermentation. It is fit to distil as soon as that tumultuous state has subsided and the liquor is calm.
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[...] 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.
Source: wiktionary
The best Veſſel for Conveyance, (if you carry above 20 Miles) is, a great Tun that holds five Hogſheads; but if no more than 10, 15, or 20 Miles, ordinary Hogſheads will do well enough. I know by Experience you may ſafely carry 300 Carps, ſix and ſeven Inches long, in one Hogſhead; but from ſeven to a Foot, not ſo many by a fourth Part.
Source: wiktionary
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