🛢️ A large barrel 😠 A rude person 🐷 A pig's head

hoghead

9.4

A very large wooden barrel used to store liquids like wine

noun
/ˈhɔɡˌhɛd/

Archaic

: tonel

The brewery used a large hoghead to store their finest ale.

Examples

During the festival, they filled a massive hoghead with cider for everyone to enjoy.
He carefully measured the ingredients using a traditional hoghead for the recipe.
Suddenly, I heard the 333's hoghead dynamite her, and all the wheels went to squealing.

Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

barrel

vshoghead

164 1.0

A large round container made of wood or metal that holds liquids such as wine and oil

is the specific large measuring or storage type of that container

cask

vshoghead

10 6.1

A large barrel used to store drinks like wine or whisky

is broader, used for storing or measuring many types of liquids

butt

vshoghead

Archaic

3 9.9

A very large wooden barrel used to store wine

is a large cask but generally refers to a smaller standard unit

beer barrel

vshoghead

1 2.7

A large round container that holds beer for keeping or moving

applies more widely to containers and measurement across different liquids

hogshead

vshoghead

Archaic

1 9.9

A large wooden barrel that holds liquids like wine or rum

is the same meaning but differs as an alternate written form

barrelful

vshoghead

1 2.8

An amount that fills a large round container used for liquids or food

emphasizes the vessel itself rather than the amount it holds

buttload

vshoghead

Archaic

9.9

A large wooden barrel once used to hold wine or ale

focuses on the physical vessel used for storing or measuring liquids

Surface Forms

hoghead singular

hogheads plural

Etymology

Hoghead is often spelled hogshead and was the name for a very large barrel used to store liquids. One popular story says the name comes from hog 'pig' and head 'head' because the barrel was very big, so hoghead came to mean a big cask or measure for wine, oil, or rum.