carboy
(ˈkɑːbɔɪ)
Also 8 karboy.
[Evidently a corruption of Pers. qarābah, qarrābah, ‘a large flagon’ (for wine, rose-water, etc.): see the quots. Kaempfer (loc. cit.) ‘gives an exact etching of a carboy’ (Yule).]
A large globular bottle, of green or blue glass, covered with basket-work for protection, used chiefly for holding acids and other corrosive liquids.
| [1712 Kaempfer Amœn. Exot. 379 (Y.) [Referring to the wine trade of Shiraz] Vasa vitrea, alia sunt majora, ampullacea et circumducto scirpo tunicata, quae vocant Karabà..Venit Karaba una apud vitriarios duobus mamudi, raro carius.] 1753 Hanway Trav. I. 154, I delivered a present..of oranges and lemons..and 6 Karboys of Ispahan wine. 1800 M. Symes Emb. to Ava 488 (Y.) Six corabahs of rose-water. 1813 W. Milburn Orient. Comm. II. 330 (Y.) Carboy of Rose-water. 1838 Poe A.G. Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 106 A carboy containing nearly three gallons of excellent Cape Madeira wine. 1883 Times 7 Apr., Two carboys were..found to contain nitro-glycerine. |
Hence ˈcarboyed ppl. a., put into a carboy.
| 1855 Fraser's Mag. LI. 536 Shrimps and anemones live in water carboyed many miles off shore. |