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

For every firkin, pot, cask, or other vessel of butter, one penny. 

From Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee by Committee, Knaresbrough Rail-way

Rip.No butter firkin mit no kiver no place, no I ain't seen him.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle by Burke, Charles

This dainty way, however, would hardly make a bad article good, and no one would crave a berry of ancient firkin butter.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various