The Barrel of Butter, formerly known as Carlin Skerry, is a skerry in Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. The rock is old red sandstone of the Devonian period...

consisted of a barrel attached to a rocking chair. While the rocking chair moved, the barrel moved and churned the milk within into butter. Butter-churn tower...

simple as a barrel with a plunger in it, moved by hand. These have mostly been replaced by mechanical churns. Butter is essentially the fat of milk. It is...

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately...

A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer...

Skerry, The Clett. Calf of Eday: Lashy Skerries, The Bow. Cava: Barrel of Butter. Copinsay: Black Holm, Corn Holm, Horse of Copinsay, Scarf Skerry, Sow...

scratched on the surface of each stave to help with re-assembly. In Anglo-Saxon Britain, wooden barrels were used to store ale, butter, honey and mead. Drinking-containers...

part of Lion Dairy & Drinks' business, including the cheese brands Cracker Barrel and COON. As of 2015[update] the company produces cheese, butter, cream...

miil of 17600 fod or 11.130 km. potte – Pot, from 1603 1⁄32 foot3 smørtønde – Barrel of butter, defined as 136 potter from 1683 korntønde – Barrel of corn...

1 liespund = 64 pounds 1 barrel of butter (tunna smjörs) = 224 pounds 1 skippund = 320 pounds 1 batt = 320 pounds A number of units were used to measure...

and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, vats, hogsheads, firkins, tierces,...

some sort of wooden container, such as buckets, kegs, barrels, dishes and butter churns. It is of animal origin, and is also known as butyrellite. Until...

diminutive of vierde 'fourth' (a firkin originally contained a quarter of a barrel). Firkin also describes a small wooden cask or tub for butter, lard, liquids...

separated at higher stages of the tide, or skerries which are only exposed at lower stages of the tide. These include Barrel of Butter, Bo Skerry, Bow Skerries...

smørtønde – barrel of butter, from 1683, 136 potter korntønde – barrel of corn (grain), from 1683 144 potter pund – pound, from 1683 the weight of 1⁄62 cubic...

"toastiness" of the barrel can bring out varying degrees of mocha and toffee notes in red wine. It is a common misconception that oak imparts butter flavors...

between Cava and the Barrel of Butter skerry. In 1919 this was the scene of the fleet's mass scuttling. 12 capital ships and a number of smaller vessels went...

the much larger island of Hoy. Nearby are the islets of Rysa Little and Fara and the skerry Barrel of Butter. To the south of Cava, between Fara and Rysa...

The butter mountain is a supply surplus of butter produced in the European Union because of government interventionism that began in the 1970s. The size...

Garrison sneaks into Canada by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Meanwhile, Butters begins dating a Canadian girl named Charlotte. The two find themselves...

pieces each week, 20 tons turf, two 20-pound barrels of butter, two sacks of potatoes, and a half-sack of salt. The hofje originally had rooms for six...

was carrying a cargo of guano and horn from Valparaiso, Chile, when she struck the Crim Rocks and later sank on the Barrel of Butter rock on The Garrison...

harbour for a price of 1,800 thaler, a load of rye, a load of barley and a barrel of butter. The harbour basin was to have an area of more than one-half...

vinegar as a preservative. Bread-and-butter pickles are a marinated variety of pickled cucumber in a solution of vinegar, sugar, and spices. They may...

Print butter is an obsolete term for butter that was sold in wrappers printed with "some emblematic device" as a branding device as modern butter almost...

unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation, and aging in wooden barrels. The word whisky (or...

with white wine and shallots moistened with demi-glace, and mixed with butter, tarragon, and lemon juice. It was also traditionally served with mushrooms...

Some smaller islets and skerries have English names such as Barrel of Butter and the Old Man of Hoy in Orkney and Maiden Island and Bottle Island in the...

hectoliters of corn, 1 court dress, 10 pounds of hop, 1 barrel of salt, 1 barrel of butter, 3 oxen, 8 sheep, 6 pigs, 2 barrels of salmon, 1 barrel of cod, 10...

lines of sheep shearing machinery, was producing milk churns and wooden barrels for butter, and from the off-cuts developed a successful line of wood-based...