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Definition of Hogsheads
1. hogshead [n] - See also: hogshead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hogsheads
Literary usage of Hogsheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"The quantity shipped to Atlantic ports is 166336 hogsheads, ... consisting of
only 2797 hogsheads and 13578 boxes Cuba, and 3288 bags Manilla. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"The first receipt of the new crop was two hogsheads on the 17th October; ...
The two hogsheads were of good grain, but of course were not well drained, ..."
3. Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register edited by Samuel Hazard (1840)
"The average direct exportations of our tobacco to that country, during the three
years aforementioned, «mounted to 19815 hogsheads; but large importations ..."
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