Crossword clues for carboy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carboy \Car"boy\ (k[aum]r"boi), n. [Cf. Ir. & Gael carb basket; or Pers qur[=a]bah a sort of bottle.] A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large globular bottle covered with basketwork," 1753, probably ultimately from Persian qarabah "large flagon."
Wiktionary
n. A large, globular glass bottle, especially one of green glass, encased in basket work or in a box and used to hold corrosive liquids.
WordNet
n. a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container
Wikipedia
A carboy, demijohn, or jimmyjohn is a rigid container with a typical capacity of 20 to 60 L (5 to 15 gallons). Carboys are primarily used for transporting liquids, often water or chemicals.
They are also used for in-home fermentation of beverages, often beer or wine.
Usage examples of "carboy".
Kenge and Carboy to Mr. Boythorn informing him that one of their clerks would wait upon him at noon.
The terms are easily concluded-- for the Lord Chancellor cannot be hard on Mr. Guppy, associated as he is with Kenge and Carboy, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, and other famous claims on his professional consideration--and it is agreed that Mr.
If your ladyship was to make any complaint to Kenge and Carboy or to Mr. Tulkinghorn of the present visit, I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation.
I attend to my profession and do what is right by Kenge and Carboy, my friends and acquaintances are of no consequence to them nor to any member of the profession, not excepting Mr. Tulkinghorn of the Fields.
There is Mr. Guppy, clerk to Kenge and Carboy, who was at first as open as the sun at noon, but who suddenly shut up as close as midnight, under the influence--no doubt--of Mr.
We are, Madam, Your obedt Servts, Kenge and Carboy Miss Esther Summerson Oh, never, never, never shall I forget the emotion this letter caused in the house!
Kenge and Carboy are out of town, and the articled clerk has taken out a shooting license and gone down to his father's, and Mr.
He had used all of his money to bribe a medical orderly and had obtained two carboys of 99 per cent pure grain alcohol, a drum of glucose and saline solution, a hypodermic needle, and a length of rubber tubing.
The ethyl-glucose-saline mixture in carboys had been slung from a rafter over his bunk with the tubing leading to the needle plunged into his arm and taped into place as an intravenous drip.
Beck closed and screwed down the manhole cover, while the men went away again and began returning with immense glass carboys of what looked like more water.
Heaving ten-gallon carboys and sides of pork is not an exercise for the puny.
In ten minutes my mind was made up, and taking my hat I set out for home, where I bathed, ate, and gave by telephone an order for a pick axe, a spade, a military gas-mask, and six carboys of sulphuric acid, all to be delivered the next morning at the cellar door of the shunned house in Benefit Street.
At length I climbed out of the hole and dispersed the heaped-up dirt, then arranging the great carboys of acid around and near two sides, so that when necessary I might empty them all down the aperture in quick succession.
I do hate informing,' he went on, 'but without the least intention of catching him out I came upon him siphoning laudanum from one of the carboys and replacing the tincture with brandy .
I do hate informing,' he went on, 'but without the least intention of catching him out I came upon him siphoning laudanum from one of the carboys and replacing the tincture with brandy.