hogshead

Example Sentences

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My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

From Salon

“There’s records of men getting stuck, bailing out, losing hogshead of tobacco. I mean it was not an easy journey.”

From Washington Post

In one year, the aforementioned four counties produced more than 11,000 hogsheads of sugar.

From The Guardian

Every two hogsheads will yield one barrel of fish oil worth in the market $22.50 per barrel, the oil being used in currying leather and for mixing with other fish and lubricating oils.

From Scientific American

Wine flowed from hogsheads like water from a fountain, and at each meal fish, fowl, and a joint of beef were served.

From Literature