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  2. English brewery cask units - Wikipedia

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    Casks in this size (themselves called firkins) are the most common container for cask ale. firkin (Ale) From the mid 15th century until 1688 the ale firkin was defined as 8 ale or beer gallons (36.97 litres). In 1688 the ale firkin was redefined to be 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 ale or beer gallons (39.28 L). In 1803 ale firkin was again redefined to be 9 ale ...

  3. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    Another form of four-sided coffin is trapezoidal (also known as the "wedge" form) and is considered a variant of the six-sided hexagonal kind of coffin. [16] Continental Europe at one time favoured the rectangular coffin or casket, although variations exist in size and shape.

  4. English wine cask units - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Supersize my funeral: caskets for the overabundant American - AOL

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    The same thing goes for caskets. Expect to pay a premium for the oversized boxes, which will hold up to an 1,100 pound corpse. And the added cost may not stop there.

  6. Barrel - Wikipedia

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    The typical bourbon barrel is 53 US gallons (200 L; 44 imp gal) in size, which is thus the de facto standard whiskey barrel size worldwide. [21] [22] Some distillers transfer their whiskey into different barrels to "finish" or add qualities to the final product. These finishing barrels frequently aged a different spirit (such as rum) or wine.

  7. Hogshead - Wikipedia

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    United States revenue stamp (proof) for the $2 tax on one hogshead of beer in 1867.. English philologist Walter William Skeat (1835–1912) noted the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in Germanic languages, in Dutch oxhooft (modern okshoofd), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhuvud, etc.

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