| It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face in this manner. |
| Then there were several negroes employed in putting the sugar into hogsheads. |
| The tirage or bottling is effected by means of two large tuns placed side by side, and holding twelve hogsheads of wine each. |
| The tun itself came to mean a specific size equal to four hogsheads or about 208 gallons. |
| This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth. |
| That was the equivalent at the time of buying 300,000 cows or the same number of hogsheads of strong liquor. |
