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

There's Patrick, my brother, way over in Ireland—the last time I saw him I wasn't taller than that butter firkin.

From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fern, Fanny

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 Adams, Joseph Quincy

Your doughty paunch stands before you like a firkin of butter, and your duck-legs seem to be cast for carrying burdens.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George