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Word entry · 8 letters

hogshead

Best crossword clue

"Large cask"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɒɡzˌhɛd/Part of speech nounSorted adeghhosStarts with HEnds with D1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a large cask especially one holding 63 gals

Used in a sentence

  • [...] 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.
  • Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
  • [...] Now the Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Maſt, and anon ſwallowed with yeſt and froth, as you'ld thruſt a Corke into a hogſhead.

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