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

Now, sir, it's not for the butter, nor the price of the butter, but, the Lord have massy on us, I wouldn't have sich another fright for a whole firkin of it.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Then he recollected that there was a firkin of home-brewed in the cellar that a recent thunderstorm had turned sour, and his brow grew clear.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

"Liar that thou art, Kerry—it would take a cask of one, and a firkin of the other to make up the necessary ointment!"

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James