carboy
noun/ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/UK/ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/US
Etymology
From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
- derived from قرابه
Definitions
A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now…
A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.
- A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
To bottle in a carboy.
- Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for carboy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA