It has since been converted into a wine cellar, the sides being divided into ten parts, and each holding a hogshead of wine in bottles.
So large a quantity as a hogsheadfrom one tree is very unusual.
As the first stream from the force pump, which Bob had lavishly painted red, crept its way up the pipes and began to wet the bottom of the first and highest hogshead Emily gave a little squeal of delight and shouted "It's come!
Fill a hogshead half full of the compost recommended for aquatics, then set the plants in the compost, press down firmly, and fill the cask with pure water.
A hogshead sunk in the ground in the open air, in some sunny location, will answer to grow them in.
Hogshead is a prettier fellow than Culverin, by two quarts; and Culverin than Musquet, by a full pint.
It is to be feared Hogshead is so often too full, and Culverin overloaded, that Musquet will be the only lasting very pretty fellow of the three.
The ordinary weight of a hogshead of tobacco at this time did not exceed three hundred and fifty pounds, and its dimensions by law were forty-three inches long and twenty-six wide.
Thirdly, two shillings per hogshead on tobacco exported, which, together with some tonnage duties, amounted to three thousand pounds a year.
The regular impost being ten shillings, this exemption was a bounty of eight shillings per hogshead for the encouragement of the importation of negroes.
The only duty levied was that of two shillings on every hogshead of tobacco exported; the exportation of the year 1671 amounting to fifteen thousand hogsheads.
An impost, first established during the Commonwealth of England, was still levied on every hogshead of tobacco exported; this became a permanent source of revenue, and rendered the executive independent of the legislature.
His pay on account of this mission was two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco, or five hundred and seventy-one hogsheads, the average weight of a hogshead at this period being three hundred and fifty pounds.
The way the men got the molasses was by knocking out the head of the hogsheadand dipping in their canteens.
If I ever get my deserts in this world, I'll make you Laureate to the Forces, with a hogshead of your own native whiskey for every victory of the army.
I backed up against a hogshead of sugar, telling them not to come any nearer to me or I would hurt some of them.
With gallons fifty-four A hogshead I can fill: But hope I never shall drink much, Drink much whoever will.
I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
The porters would then roll the hogshead off, in order to put it on a cart and take it away.
The 23d December, twenty bales cotton, and one hogshead tobacco, to Messrs Goring.
To crown this splendid array, stood an open hogshead full of Dutch cheeses.
The cream was set by in a vessel for future churning, and the milk, as each pan was skimmed, was poured down the wooden trough at the left of the window through which it went into a great hogshead at the lower kitchen door.
Then I touched off the hogshead of rockets, and a vast fountain of dazzling lances of fire vomited itself toward the zenith with a hissing rush, and burst in mid-sky into a storm of flashing jewels!
Schoolemaster, hee that is likest to a hogshead Nath.
It did move its head--or a part of it--and 'Lisbeth sat inside the hogshead instead of outside of it.
She climbed up on thehogshead and sat very still, thinking how to manage about the new clothes.
She jumped up and down so suddenly and so hard that the hogshead tried to move its head out of the way.
There was an old hogshead under the walnut tree, very high and old.
He first tried his machine with only two pounds of powder on a hogshead loaded with stones.
The powder was set on fire, and up went the stones and the boards of the hogshead and a body of water, many feet into the air.
I climbed up onto the edge of that hogshead that the workmen had left right beside the trellis that runs up by my window.
I meant to get in at my window, but I fell and got into a hogshead of dirty water.
The present for the cellar was a hogshead of Spanish wine, a hogshead of claret wine, a hogshead of Rhenish wine, a hogshead of Hamburg beer, a hogshead of Serbster beer.
Keeping well in the shadow round the edge of the court, he slipped to the other side, and was just about to pop himself in behind the hogshead when he noticed that someone was there before him.
Fuselli had pushed himself in behind a big hogshead that had a pleasant tang of old wood damp with sour wine.
But he had caught a glimpse of the dark round form of the hogshead beside the kitchen door.
He hid the lantern in Huck's sugar hogshead and the watch began.
But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogsheadabout twelve.
I have two pipes of sherry, that is bad; but, if you like, you can send the Doctor a hogshead of that which is coming.
The paxoretti I have given to Davison; and ordered one hogshead of sherry to Canterbury, and one to dear Merton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hogshead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
