PORK BARREL Old unit of measure equivalent to roughly 200 pounds
“There was the place for the water-pail, pork-barrel, and wash basin.”
-Henry David Thoreau
describing a 19th century loggers camp in the Main Woods
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PORK BARREL Old unit of measure equivalent to roughly 200 pounds
“There was the place for the water-pail, pork-barrel, and wash basin.”
-Henry David Thoreau
describing a 19th century loggers camp in the Main Woods