Crossword-Solution: FIRKIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Firkin | n. | A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. |
| Firkin | n. | A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “FIRKIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brewing measure | 1 answer |
| FISH cask | 1 answer |
| Quarter-barrel | 1 answer |
| Small wooden barrel | 1 answer |
| Small wooden barrel; nine gallons | 1 answer |
| Wooden cask | 1 answer |
| Capacity measure, nine imperial gallons | 1 answer |
| Nine imperial gallons | 1 answer |
| Small cask. | 2 answers |
| A BRITISH UNIT OF CAPACITY EQUAL TO 9 IMPERIAL GALLONS | 11 answers |
| Keg | 13 answers |
| ENGLISH weight | 17 answers |
| Tub | 18 answers |
| BRITISH measure | 36 answers |
| ENGLISH measure | 40 answers |
| Barrel-__ | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with FIRKIN (5)
Come with us and take a firkin of canary, and we will find better work for that glaive of thine than getting its owner into broil and bloodshed; for, by my troth! Milan or no Milan, if my curtel axe do but ring against that morion of thine it will be an ill day for thy father’s son.’ “For a moment our hero hesitated as to whether it would best become his knightly traditions to hurl himself against his enemies, or whether it might not be better to obey their requests.
She was as round an' as complate in all her shapes as a firkin, you'd think, an' her two cheeks was as fat an' as red, it id open your heart to look at them.
Gather a thousand or two of these, and put them, with a peck or two of their own earth, into some tub or firkin, and cover and keep them so warm that the frost or cold air, or winds, kill them not: these you may keep all winter, and kill fish with them at any time; and if you put some of them into a little earth and honey, a day before you use them, you will find them an excellent bait for Bream, Carp, or indeed for almost any fish.
Here am I upholding the good fame of the learned Duns Scotus against the foolish quibblings and poor silly reasonings of Willie Ockham.” “While I,” quoth the other loudly, “do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water.
The butter is barrelled, or often pickled up in small casks, and sold, not in London only, but I have known a firkin of Suffolk butter sent to the West Indies, and brought back to England again, and has been perfectly good and sweet, as at first.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1965–2000).