英：[ˈfɜ:kɪn]
美：[ˈfɜrkɪn]
firkin如何读
firkin是什么意思
- n.（装油脂用的）木制小桶；（费尔金）英国的一种容量单位
- Firkin.
- 人名.
firkin自然拼读
fir·kin
fuhr kihn
firkin英英释义
- n.
- a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons
- a small wooden keg
firkin词源中文解释
"小桶子"，14世纪晚期，似乎源自中古荷兰语 *vierdekijn，是 vierde 的小型化形式，字面意思是"四分之一，四分之一部分"（来自 vier "四"，源自 PIE 词根 *kwetwer- "四"）； 因为它通常是一个桶的四分之一而得名。
firkin词源英文解释
Middle English, ultimately from Middle Dutch veerdel fourth, from veer four; akin to Old English fēower — more at four
The first known use of firkin was in the 14th century
firkin儿童词典英英释义
firkinnoun
a small wooden container or barrel
firkin 例句
1 Young Farmer got down off the firkin, and got on his knees, and tried to repeat some Sunday school lesson, but all he could think of was, "Evil communications corrupt two in the bush."
2 The periwigs and drum-heads fry Like to a butter firkin; A woeful burning did betide To many a good buff jerkin.
3 At Loanda, capital of the kingdom of Angola, a firkin of wine sells for above thirty pounds sterling.
4 “Half a firkin came in last week,” responded Sister Ada.
5 Of one such firkin I have a pleasant memory and memorial, though it never reposed in my home cellar.
6 "There is burnt wine in yonder firkin," she said, and I fetched a draught in the cup of my two hands.
7 Artwork will be displayed in The Loft alongside a fiery firkin keg.
8 Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' custom of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.
9 For every firkin, pot, cask, or other vessel of butter, one penny.
10 A barrel of gunpowder, containing four firkins, weighed 400 lb., and had the casks in the cellar all been barrels, in the strict sense of the word, the amount would therefore have exceeded six tons.
11 Also look for Riverwest Stein, Eastside Dark, IPA, New Grist Pilsner and a daily firkin from Lakefront.
12 Meet the artist and sip on a firkin during the opening reception at 5 p.m. On view through August.
13 So we obeyed the summons of the Liberty sisters to "come right down"; and we sat on a firkin and an inverted tub while Calliope told her plan and the hens fought for delectable morsels.
14 And there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
15 And it appeared from the register that Martin, during the year of his Whitsun Kingship, had cost the community seventy-two firkins of wine, and more than a hundred heads broken for fun.
16 Festivities start at 5 p.m. with Michelle tapping a firkin of Termination Dust conditioned with black currants & cinnamon.
17 The brewery has several hundred firkins — small casks full of finished beer — with dispensing devices called “beer engines” for serving on premises.
18 Clendaniel will be tapping a firkin of 2014 Sloth imperial Belgian-style stout cask-conditioned with blackberries to start the show.
19 Streetside has challenged six local teams to use firkins as a vessel in which to rest the brewery’s delicious Demogorgon stout on a variety of adjuncts (nutella and strawberry, anyone?).
20 Now I am writing while sitting upon a firkin of apples that I had sent from our neighbor Williams, waiting for the squad to come and help me eat them.