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| has gloss | (noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) butt |
| has gloss | eng: The butt (from the medieval French and Italian botte) or pipe is an old English unit of wine casks, holding two hogsheads (approx. 475 to 480 litres). A hogshead varied in size but today (in the U.S.A.) is most commonly 63 US gallons (7 firkins; ca. 238.5 litres), so a butt is now (in the U.S.A.) usually 126 US gallons (≈ 104 imperial gallons; but in the UK a hogshead is 3 kilderkin, a kilderkin is 2 firkins and a firkin is 9 gallons, making the pipe 108 gallons). |
| lexicalization | eng: Butt |
| subclass of | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids barrel, cask |
| has subclass | (noun) a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater water butt |
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| Catalan | |
| lexicalization | cat: cul |
| Czech | |
| has gloss | ces: Pipe je stará anglická a francouzská objemová míra, která se používala pro měření obsahu vína a destilátů. |
| lexicalization | ces: pipe |
| German | |
| has gloss | deu: Das Butt [] (von altfranzösisch und ital. botte, verwandt mit dt. Bütte), auch Pipe, ist eine alte englische Volumeneinheit für Weinfässer, die zwei Hogsheads (etwa 477 Liter) entsprach. |
| lexicalization | deu: Butt |
| Punu | |
| lexicalization | puu: marrangui |
| Kiswahili | |
| lexicalization | swh: kitako |
| Volapük | |
| lexicalization | vol: cuk |
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| similar | e/Butt (volume) |
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| media:img | Winemake.JPG |
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