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

Up he got from his seat upon the firkin, and his head was in the shadows of the smoky timbers.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

Mrs. Penn asks Logan to provide "candlesticks, and great candles, some green ones, and pewter and earthen basins, mops, salts, looking-glass, a piece of dried beef, and a firkin or two of good butter."

From William Penn by Hodges, George

Rip.No butter firkin mit no kiver no place, no I ain't seen him.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle by Burke, Charles