Crane: alternatives and connections

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, be…

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller…

Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to ex…

Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition…

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

To take out the entrails of (herrings).

To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the…