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
An old trunk, a small barrel, or a large butter or lard firkin or tin will serve the purpose.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education
An ancient dame a firkin sees, In which the rich Falernian lees Send from the nobly tinctured shell A rare and most delicious smell!
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
Mrs. Penn asks Logan to provide "candlesticks, and great candles, some green ones, and pewter and earthen basins, mops, salts, looking-glass, a piece of dried beef, and a firkin or two of good butter."
From William Penn by George Hodges
