Workers were hauling on the ground great hogsheads of water.

At once he began trying to tip back the great hogsheads at one side of the vault.

So great hogsheads of ale were hoisted up from the cellars and the liquor fed to the clumsy hand-engines of the period.

A line of great hogsheads were placed alongside the walls, and within each sat a man, his head protruding from the top.