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Demijohn

noun

Large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork.

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"Demijohn" Quotes from Famous Books

... and Braverman bustled in, carrying the packs. Then Budd jumped up and ran to them. He returned to the table, carrying a demijohn, which he banged ...

— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... another part of the camp, gave selections on a tin whistle, sang a song or two, contributed, in his turn, to the sailor yarns, and ensured his popularity for several nights at least. After several draughts of something that was poured out of a demijohn into a pint-pot, his tongue became loosened, and he expressed an opinion that geology was all bosh, and said if he had half his employer's money he'd be dashed if he would go rooting round in the mud like a blessed old ant-eater; he also irreverently ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... at Holloway that Mrs. Roden and Mrs. Vincent were cousins. They were like enough in face and near enough in age to have been sisters; but old Mrs. Demijohn, of No. 10, Paradise Row, had declared that had George been a nephew his aunt would not have wearied in her endeavour to convert him. In such a case there would have been intimacy in spite of disapproval. ...

— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope

... of the rumseller, ever since the first demijohn of that burning liquid was opened upon our shores, have been saluted, at every stage of the traffic, with just such appeals as this. Such wives, such widows, and mothers, such fatherless children, as never ...

— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

Words linked to "Demijohn" : bottle