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hogshead

noun as in large barrel

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“If BMW is ‘the ultimate driving machine,’ your Anthem is the ultimate differentiator,” writes Hogshead.

A blob of blue smoke curled out of a hole the size of a hogshead in a steep bank overhung with alders.

He first tried his machine with only two pounds of powder on a hogshead loaded with stones.

The powder was set on fire, and up went the stones and the boards of the hogshead and a body of water, many feet into the air.

Behind him, the Priests at the golden hogshead, now set free to taste the wine themselves, had lost no time.

The jar here means a big affair about half the size of a hogshead: I bathed in one this morning.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hogshead, such as: barrel, cask, drum, keg, vat, and vessel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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