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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

... bathe them in a sensuous content, as they smoked and dawdled, they gave never a thought to its beauty. For there had been a blitheness in the town that day, and every other man seemed to have been preeing the demijohn. ...

— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... two of the array that had sat in judgment on Nevins, had been "held up" at night by a gang of half a dozen desperadoes and the three passengers relieved of their valuables, consisting of one gold watch and two of silver, one seal ring, three revolvers, three extra-sized canteens, a two-gallon demijohn, and in the aggregate three gallons of whisky. The victims had submitted to the inevitable so far as their gold and silver were concerned, but pathetically pointed out to the robber chief the hardship of being bereft ...

— A Wounded Name • Charles King

Words linked to "Demijohn" : bottle