CARBOYとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/

名詞

carboy (plural carboys)

1. A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.

   Synonym: demijohn

   • 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., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 77:

     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.

参考

• tallboy

動詞

carboy (third-person singular simple present carboys, present participle carboying, simple past and past participle carboyed)

1. (transitive) To bottle in a carboy.
   • 1936, New York (State) Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin (issues 658-679, page 14)

     Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.