Etymology From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
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A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.
A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Fair Captive from the Sky”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., October 1917, →OCLC, page 77:
He ran to his right and another shot came at his legs. It hit the floor and zoomed into a huge carboy of clams that split in half and emptied a hundred shell-fish over the floor.1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 160:
Etymology From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
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To bottle in a carboy.
Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.1936, New York (State) Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin (issues 658-679, page 14)