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Definitions: Hogshead |
HogsheadNoun1. A British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages. 2. A large cask especially one holding 63 gals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hogshead" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Etymology: Hogshead \Hogs"head\, noun. [from Dutch expression okshoofd; akin to Swedish oxhufvud, Danish oxehoved, German oxhoft; apparently meaning originally, ox head, but it is not known why this name was given. Compare to Ox, Head.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Hogshead a large cask = 1/2-pipe or butt, is a curious instance of the misuse of h. The word is from the Danish Oxe-hud (ox-hide), the larger skins in contradistinction to the smaller goat skins. An oxe-hud contained 240 Danish quarts. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Crosswords: Hogshead |
| English words defined with "hogshead": Foots ♦ To end up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hogshead": BOOKING PRIZER, BULL-GANG WORKER ♦ cask maker, CHANNEL INSTALLER ♦ head-out worker, hogshead builder, HOGSHEAD COOPER I, HOGSHEAD COOPER III, hogshead filler, hogshead hand, hogshead head-matcher, HOGSHEAD HOOPER, HOGSHEAD INSPECTOR, hogshead liner, HOGSHEAD MAT ASSEMBLER, HOGSHEAD MAT INSPECTOR, HOGSHEAD OPENER, hogshead packer, hogshead roller, hogshead stripper, hogshead unpacker, hogshead wrecker, hogshead-press operator, HYDRAULIC-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ LINE-OUT WORKER I, LINE-OUT WORKER II, load-out worker, loose-hand packer ♦ Measures, moisture-test puller ♦ prize jacker ♦ sample puller, SNOUT, STEAM-CONDITIONER OPERATOR, STITCHING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ TARRING AND FEATHERING, test puller, TO COUCH A HOGSHEAD, TOBACCO-SAMPLE PULLER ♦ Values ♦ Weights. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hogshead": Oxhead. (references) |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught. |
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| "Hogshead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Hogshead" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hogshead | 12 |
hogshead in york | 5 |
hogshead publishing | 5 |
nancy hogshead | 3 |
hogshead cheese | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hogshead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vozë (butt, cask, wood), masë lëngjesh (pint, pottle), fuçi e madhe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقياس للسعة, برميل كبير (butt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | голяма бъчва (back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | velký sud (butt, Tun). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | oksehoved, fad (barrel, cask, course, dish, flabby, flavin adenine dinucleotide, flavine adenine dinucleotide, plate, platter, tank, tierce, vat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vat (bar., barrel, blood vessel, box, butt, cask, container, drum, grasp, jug, tierce, tun, vase, vessel), okshoofd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puutynnyri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | barrique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stueckfass, großes fass (butt), Fass (barrel, cask, churn, drum, keg, tub, vat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάδοσ 63 γαλλόνιων, κάδος (baffle, bin, blade, bucket, cask, churn, cylinder vat, draw bucket, drinking bowl, paddle, pail, pan, scraper, skip, small trough, tank, trough, tub, US:cup, vane, vat), βαρέλια, βαρέλι μπύρασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyhordó, nagy hordó (butt), 240 liter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | misura per i liquidi, botte (barrel, butt, cask, Tun, wood), barilotto (bull, bull's eye, firkin, kilderkin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogsheadhay barrica (barrel, butt, cask, keg, tub). (various references) butoi mare (Tun), butoi (barrel, butt, cask, vat, wood). (various references) бочка (barrel, barrel-roll, bun, cask, snap-roll, vat, wood), большая бочка (butt, puncheon). (various references) togsaid. (various references) mera za tečnost (kilderkin, liquid measure, noggin, pottle). (various references) pipa (pip, pipe, pipeful, puncheon, smoking pipe, tobacco pipe), bocoe, barrica (cask). (various references) oxhuvud. (various references) büyük sıvı ölçüsü, büyük fıçı (puncheon). (various references) хогсхед, барило (barrel, cask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "hogshead": hogsheads. (additional references) | |
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"Hogshead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hogshaw, Hogspeuw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hogshead" (pronounced 'Hogs"head'): Beakhead, Billhead, Blockhead, Bolthead, Bowhead, Bridgehead, Bulkhead, Cathead, Cockhead, Cockshead, Crosshead, Dotehead, Drawhead, Drumhead, Dullhead, Forehead, Gilthead, Godhead, Grouthead, Growthead, Knighthead, Manhead, Oxhead, Rawhead, redhead, Ringhead, Rosehead, Roughhead, roundhead, Runghead, saphead, sheepshead, Shorthead, Snaphead, Sorehead, spearhead, Springhead, stairhead, Stakehead, Steelhead, Toadhead, Wellhead, Woolhead. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-h-o-s" | |
-2 letters: dagoes, dosage, gashed, hashed, seadog. | |
-3 letters: ashed, dagos, deash, degas, doges, egads, goads, hades, heads, hosed, sadhe, shade, shoed. | |
-4 letters: ados, aged, ages, dago, dags, dahs, dash, does, doge, dogs, dose, edhs, egad, egos, gads, gaed, gaes, gash, geds, goad, goas, gods, goes, gosh, hade, haed, haes, hags, hahs, hash, head, hehs, hods. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-h-o-s" | |
+1 letter: hogsheads. | |
+4 letters: shortchanged. | |
+5 letters: hydrographers, hydrographies. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01100111 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o g s h e a d |
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