hogshead

English Thesaurus

1. a large cask especially one holding 63 gals (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	barrel, cask,
definition	:	a cylindrical container that holds liquids (noun.artifact)

2. a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	british capacity unit, imperial capacity unit,
definition	:	a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	barrel, bbl,
definition	:	any of various units of capacity (noun.quantity)