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"Sugar hogsheads" from Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, W. Clark, 1823, plate X. A tobacco hogshead was used in British and American colonial times to transport and store tobacco. It was a very large wooden barrel.
The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) ...
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.
The ale or beer firkin (from Middle Dutch vierdekijn meaning "fourth") is a quarter of an ale or beer barrel or half a kilderkin. This unit is much smaller than the wine firkin . Casks in this size (themselves called firkins) are the most common container for cask ale .
A Dutch word meaning "little quintal"; a measure that was a half of a barrel. 1 barrel = 4 firkins = 2 kilderkins [36 Imp. gal.] 1 hogshead = 6 firkins = 3 kilderkins [54 Imp. gal.]: 1 butt = 12 firkins = 6 kilderkins = 3 barrels = 2 hogsheads [108 Imp. gal.] {Beer bottles in South Africa were different from in other countries.}
For example, in the UK and Ireland, a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of 36 imperial gallons (160 L; 43 US gal), and is distinguished from other unit measurements, such as firkins, hogsheads, and kilderkins. [7] Wine was shipped in barrels of 119 litres (31 US gal; 26 imp gal).
Passengers consumed large amounts of alcohol such as beer with meals. This was known to be safer than water, which often came from polluted sources causing diseases. All food and drink was stored in barrels known as "hogsheads". [20] No cattle or beasts of draft or burden were brought on the journey, but there were pigs, goats, and poultry.
In 1847 the exports of pilchards from Cornwall amounted to 40,883 hogsheads or 122 million fish, while the greatest number ever taken in one seine was 5,600 hogsheads at St Ives in 1868. [5] Huers (cliff top lookouts) helped locate shoals of fish. The huer would shout "Hevva!, Hevva!" to alert the boats to the location of the pilchard shoals.