COMMERCE,TRANSPORTalargecontainer, sometimes in aframeforsupport, used forstoringandtransportingliquids:Alargecarboy willprotectwinefrom afairlylargetemperatureswing.(Definition ofcarboyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcarboy
carboyGlass carboys carrying poisons should not be carried in open wagons.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Carboy, explaining that he is a physician, asks the crowd to stand back and steps in to help.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An example of this is starting fermentation in acarboyor stainless steel tank and then moving it over to oak barrels.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The experiment ended with the explosion of the glasscarboythat he was using as part of his setup.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The wine thief is used to remove a small amount of wine from a cask,carboy, or other fermentation device for testing.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Alcohol,carboy, elixir, and athanor are examples.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/carboy##
