hogshead

Example Sentences

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My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

From Salon

“There’s records of men getting stuck, bailing out, losing hogshead of tobacco. I mean it was not an easy journey.”

From Washington Post

In one year, the aforementioned four counties produced more than 11,000 hogsheads of sugar.

From The Guardian

On the 12th of October 80 hogsheads of herrings were taken at one haul, and 30 hogsheads two tides before.

From Scientific American

Arriving at a bend in the embankment, we entered into the first warehouse there, a storehouse for some chandlery, and began setting it to flames, touching our brands to cordage and hogsheads.

From Literature