firkin
Example Sentences
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He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
In the flesh, Ruth Davidson, 37, is a firkin of fun, speaks with a machine-gun delivery and can hold her own.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2016
The periwigs and drum-heads fry Like to a butter firkin; A woeful burning did betide To many a good buff jerkin.
From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams
This dainty way, however, would hardly make a bad article good, and no one would crave a berry of ancient firkin butter.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
Yon firkin of butter, is it a ghost?
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
