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

For every firkin, pot, cask, or other vessel of butter, one penny. 

From Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee by Committee, Knaresbrough Rail-way

Of one such firkin I have a pleasant memory and memorial, though it never reposed in my home cellar.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

An old trunk, a small barrel, or a large butter or lard firkin or tin will serve the purpose.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education