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hhd

American  
  1. hogshead; hogsheads.


hhd British  

abbreviation

  1. hogshead

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There was on board 30 hhd sugar, 1 hhd & 1 bbl indigo, 13 hhd Bourdeaux wine, & provisions in plenty.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various

One hhd of best molasses One ditto of best rum One barrell of lymes if good and cheap One pot of tamarinds containing about 10 Ibs.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

They kept company with us all night, and in the morning sent us a hhd of wine.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various

He gave the people another hhd of claret & some sugar, & to the Cap't a quarter cask of wine for his own drinking, also 6 lengths of old junk.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various

In this year, a line of 46 hhds brought $3,390 84, averaging $73 73 per hhd.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

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