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a barrel so big it once measured beer, tobacco, and pure human ambition
actual volumeholds about 238 to 250 liters of liquid
no pigsname likely from old Dutch oxhoofd, not swine
tobacco haulercolonial Americans rolled them along roads like wheels
shrinking unitsize varied wildly by what it held
whisky homescotch ages in casks built from ex-bourbon barrels