carboy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/(UK)
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/ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/(UK) · /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/(US)
Definition of carboy
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.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.”
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noun
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A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.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.”
verb
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(transitive)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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
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