Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · Jun 29 Well, you learn something new every day! "A #butt of malmsey was a measuring unit in Medieval England for the transport of malmsey wine. First recorded in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the late 14th century" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_of...
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I ran a venue here in Brighton called ‘The Freebutt’. On the site of an old brewery. It was where the draymen had their Free Butts of beer
Good lord imagine the size of that hog and its shoulder.
British imperial measurements went hard on funny names. Barrels and kegs and common parlance now even if many don't know they were actual measurements. Others include Bushel, Peck, Firkin, Kilderkin.