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

The periwigs and drum-heads fry Like to a butter firkin; A woeful burning did betide To many a good buff jerkin.

From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Adams, Joseph Quincy

Yon firkin of butter, is it a ghost?

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

Villagers.Ha, ha, ha! 1st Villager.I say, old feller, you ain't seed nothing of no old butter firkin with no kiver on, no place about here?

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle by Burke, Charles