单词 | hogshead |
释义 | hogshead/ˈhɒɡzˌhɛd /(abbreviation hhd) noun 1A large cask.Within months he had joined forces with him to make their first large shipment to London: 48 hogsheads and a quarter cask, sent to Robert Blake Byass, who was to become their UK agent....
1.1A measure of capacity for wine, equal to 52.5 imperial gallons or 63 US gallons (238.7 litres).City Tavern not only resuscitates these old style beverages; it sells hogsheads of them....
1.2A measure of capacity for beer, equal to 54 imperial gallons or 64 US gallons (245.5 litres).Thus ‘… if the party deceased were of good note, they will send to the wake hogsheads of excellent stale beer and wine from all parts, with other provisions, as beef & c.’...
OriginMiddle English: from hog + head; the reason for the term is unknown. |
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