firkin

Example Sentences

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The annual event sees selected town residents taking turns to run through the streets carrying burning wooden firkins in an "ancient rite of passage", Andrew Wade, president of the Tar Barrels Committee, said.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

The firkins take over the pub's patio and dining room, and the focus is entirely on the beer, not live bands or contests.

From Washington Post

They tell me that after they'd burned all the butter an' butter firkins an' the hull inside of the spring-haouse—purgin' by fire as the Good Book says—the odor still lingered.

From The Mission of Janice Day by Turner, Corinne

In the morning we loaded the canoe with one hundred and forty-one half barrels of flour, and twenty half barrels of pork and mackerel, and two hogsheads filled with firkins of butter.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Dunham, Jacob

Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews’ manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus