hogshead
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In one year, the aforementioned four counties produced more than 11,000 hogsheads of sugar.
From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2019
Every two hogsheads will yield one barrel of fish oil worth in the market $22.50 per barrel, the oil being used in currying leather and for mixing with other fish and lubricating oils.
From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2019
Besides this product the remains of five hogsheads of fish will produce one tun of pumice or fish guano, the best fertilizer known, and worth by itself $20 per tun.”
From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2019
It includes a range of Speyside, Islay and Highland single malts, mostly laid down in the 1970s and 1980s, and "crown jewels" such as 1970 Glenlivet hogsheads and Macallan butts.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2017
The Pigeons, arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one above another, until solid masses as large as hogsheads were formed on the branches all round.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
