Hogshead
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A liquid measure, containing half a pipe; the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A liquid measure, containing half a pipe; the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons. HOKE DAY (Heck Day). A day of feasting or mirth kept formerly in England on the second or third Tuesday after Easter; Cent. Diet.; or, as a recent writer concludes, the first Sunday after Easter; 28 L. Q. Rev. 283, where it is suggested that it was originally the great spring festival of the pre- Roman British.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A measure of a capacity contain‘ng the fourth part of a tun, or sixtythree gallons. Cowell. <A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing from one hundred to one hundred and forty gallons. Webster.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
A measure of wine, oil, and the like, containing half a pipe, the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons.