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How to use hogshead in a sentence

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People were also smiling at Al, as he trudged up the hill with his accordion on his back and a hogshead of beer at his side.
Tom finds him hiding in a hogshead behind the old slaughterhouse, and tries to get him to return to the Widow's home.
Nog was a very strong kind of beer peculiar to East Anglia and a hogshead is about 60 gallons.
To a hogshead of wine, add a bowlful of red wine pips dried and then boiled.
Once there, she ducked down into the shadows again and hid behind some hogshead barrels as a few sentinels turned the corner and passed by.
Ageing by Limousin's oak casks with medium burn, in new barrels for 3 years and than in old barrels or hogshead in a damp cellar.
So he relied largely on claret, buying four hogsheads of 24 dozen bottles of Margaux and one hogshead of Lafite every three months.
In 1763 prime minister Bute introduced a tax on cider of four shillings a hogshead.
Some letter pairs should not be interpreted as digraphs, but appear due to compounding, like in hogshead and cooperate.
Once making their intentions known to the boarded crew, they ended up taking thirty casks of brandy and five hogshead of wine, among other goods.
Twelve seconds after this is accomplished, she has pointed the hogshead in Jack's direction and seven seconds after that they're boning each other in his bachelor pad.
Local residents shared the labor of slaughtering hogs and preparing boudin, cracklins, andouille sausage, hogshead cheese, backbone stew and more.
Turns out a Hogshead is a unit of measure equal to 2 barrels of wine.
Examples from Classical Literature
The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst, that I ever heard of, was a hogshead of claret!
When in hospital, chance had given him hogshead Geoffrey for bed-neighbour.
Then, to repeat my interrogatory, what was you a doing of with the kitten in the hogshead?
Page 156 and he would have borrowed a hh of corne of ye Indeans, hh is probably hogshead.
They have brought a hogshead of beer, and are broaching it upon the high altar.
And to this moment, no rushing river is half so ministrant to dread as is a still, dull hogshead, where insects float and fly.
Hosged for hogshead, and haps for hasp are well-known instances.
From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead.
The cattleya was still there, perched aloft, as big as a hogshead.
Your representative has agreed that you shall give a hogshead.
But be reasonable, and leave me the sixth hogshead at least.
Drowned to def in de hogshead, wid a brick tied erround him.
I wish Mr. Schultz were in a hogshead of it, with the top on.
The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.
At every man's elbow stood his leathern blackjack of beer, while at the further end a hogshead with its end knocked in promised an abundant supply for the future.
Dear Tess, keep up your Spirits, and we mean to send you a Hogshead of Cyder for you Wedding, knowing there is not much in your parts, and thin Sour Stuff what there is.
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