•hogshead (English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 521⁄2 imperial gallons; a half pipe) · hogshead (large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons)
köken: From Middle Dutch ocxhooft (first attested in 1475), a partial calque of Middle English hoggeshed (see hoofd), with loss of initial h-; *oks is not a Dutch word.