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Meanings of hogshead (hogsheads) in English
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Usage of hogsheads in English
1
On the corner of the street lay several large empty sugar hogsheads.
2
The produce is stated at twenty-five hogsheads, of thirteen hundred bottles each.
3
Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads.
4
At eleven o'clock four more hogsheads had been placed under the guards.
5
The larger planters packed it in the usual way in hogsheads.
6
In the cellar with the hogsheads, or in the attic with the maid?
7
The estate had sometimes given four hundred hogsheads in the year.
8
The crops for this year will exceed the average by several thousand hogsheads.
9
There's hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr. Stubb, and that's what ye came for.
10
He threw the stirrups from him, behind the row of hogsheads.
11
In 1671 five hundred hogsheads were made of one orchard's produce.
12
The boat was loaded with sugar, and I hid myself behind four hogsheads.
13
A spacious apartment presented itself, well furnished with pipes and hogsheads.
14
Without oxen roasted whole, and broached hogsheads, they ain't in a manner legal.'
15
I'm so tired of hogsheads; mayn't it be firkins this time?
16
Now before me there were tiers of hogsheads full of air!
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