carboy
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carboy
- /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/ UK
- /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/ US
Where it comes from
From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
noun carboys
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A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.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.
Similar: demijohn
verb carboys · carboying · carboyed
- 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.
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