hogshead

hogshead englannista suomeksi

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hogshead englanniksi

1. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 gallons, or about (frac) imperial gallons; a half pipe.

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2. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed by William Iones for Thomas Paine,(nb...)|year=1632|page=15|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02325.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|oclc=58648347|passage=... their vessels for use are made some of clay, of which sort some are so great as that they will containe more then one hogshead of water.

3. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Curll|Edmund Curll,(nb...)|year=1713|page=62|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUQCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62|oclc=221449300|passage=The best Veſſel for Conveyance, (if you carry above 20 Miles) is, a great Tun that holds five Hogſheads; but if no more than 10, 15, or 20 Miles, ordinary Hogſheads will do well enough. I know by Experience you may ſafely carry 300 ''Carps'', ſix and ſeven Inches long, in one Hogſhead; but from ſeven to a Foot, not ſo many by a fourth Part.

4. (quote-book)|location=Oxford|publisher=At the University Press|Clarendon Press|year=1882|volume=IV (1401–1582)|page=205|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/historyofagricul04rogeuoft/page/205/mode/1up|oclc=491557107|passage=Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons.

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6. A large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

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