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

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

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

"Cousin Jane and Sylvie might go into business, as did the poor weavers of Toad Lane, with their sack of oatmeal, firkin of butter, a little sugar and flour," said Jack laughingly.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie