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
This dainty way, however, would hardly make a bad article good, and no one would crave a berry of ancient firkin butter.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
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 Charles Burke
We put on a hogshead of sugar, twenty-five hams, a sack of coffee, box of tea, firkin of butter, barrel of potatoes, some hominy, beans, canned fruits, etc.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
