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firkin

[fur-kin] / ˈfɜr kɪn /






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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

In the rear end of their wagon was a butter firkin and a number of packages.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

You will get a half-piece of linen, a firkin of butter, a sheep or a cow.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall

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