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n. (plural of pork barrel English)
Usage examples of "pork barrels".
This was the second time since her refitting in Plymouth that she had gone through this laborious process, refilling her casks from the water-hoys, replacing the empty beef and pork barrels from the victuallers, and coaxing all the small stores she could from the itinerant slop-ship that Cornwallis had put into commission.
This was the second time since her refitting in Plymouth that she had gone through this laborious process, refilling her casks from the waterhoys, replacing the empty beef and pork barrels from the victuallers, and coaxing all the small stores she could from the itinerant slopship that Cornwallis had put into commission.
Hanging around with the big guy over there leaning against those navy pork barrels.
The stuff ranged from steel splinters to clods as large as pork barrels.
The chairman was an ancient party warhorse from Missouri whose only real interests were pork barrels and buxom black women.
The idea that well all benefit more from increased production, fairly divided, than from handouts and pork barrels was too much for the old guard.