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
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
Joan Andrews of York, Maine, sold two heavy stones in a firkin of butter.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse
"Cousin Jane and Sylvie might go into business, as did the poor weavers of Toad Lane, with their sack of oatmeal, firkin of butter, a little sugar and flour," said Jack laughingly.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
