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
“Half a firkin came in last week,” responded Sister Ada.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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
Joan Andrews of York, Maine, sold two heavy stones in a firkin of butter.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
