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HOGSHEAD Definition & Legal Meaning

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A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixtythreegallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing fromone hundred to one hundred and forty gallons. Webster.

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