Noun

(en noun)

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).

(by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

* 2011 , Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (page 187)

As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.

(computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

Noun

(en noun)

An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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  Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}