carboy

From Persian قرابه‎ (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.bɔɪ/

carboy (plural carboys)

1. A large, globular glass bottle, especially one of green glass, encased in basketwork or in a box and used to hold corrosive liquids.
   • 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     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.

• demijohn

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.