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  • noun Plural form of carboy.

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Examples

  • The collection included some large glass bottles, called carboys, chemicals, siphoning equipment, corks and other stuff I didn't know heads or tails about.

    The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories Lo Mielke 2009

  • My wife's ex-husband had been an home beer brewer, so we borrowed a couple 'carboys' from him and a fermentation lock.

    Orient Lodge 2008

  • I asked the former owner, "Why the bottles are called carboys?

    The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories Lo Mielke 2009

  • I remember being intrigued by all the barrels, the bubblers, the carboys and probably most of all, the aromas.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • I remember being intrigued by all the barrels, the bubblers, the carboys and probably most of all, the aromas.

    Q&A 2009

  • Home brewing also embraces recycling -- clever collecting is all you need to acquire all the carboys and bottles you could ever dream of filling.

    Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing Jenna Woginrich 2010

  • I went downstairs to look for a lightbulb the other day, and I literally tripped over one of the two 5 gallon carboys holding cider in various stages of “improvement” and into the 6 gallon crock filled with sauerkraut.

    Fermenting/Fomenting | clusterflock 2009

  • She's found non-toxic alternatives to everything and when monkey is in the lab the most I have to worry about is him turning the tap on the Et'Ol carboys.

    Safety Buffoons Candid Engineer 2009

  • I would descend step by slow step into the dim world of the pickling tank and there prepare the new solutions from the great carboys of acids lowered to me on ropes . . .

    Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011

  • I would descend step by slow step into the dim world of the pickling tank and there prepare the new solutions from the great carboys of acids lowered to me on ropes . . .

    Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011

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