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Vat vs Hogshead - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vat and hogshead

is that vat is a large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning while hogshead is an English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.

As a verb vat

is to blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

vat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
  • A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
  • (Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
  • (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)

    • Verb

    (vatt)
  • To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

    • Anagrams

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    hogshead

    English

    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)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}