hogshead

The washing-tub stood in the same old place on the same old quarter-hogshead, and her mother, having thrown the sheet aside, was about to plunge her arms in anew.

洗衣桶还是放在老地方，放在以前那只旧的大酒桶上面，她的母亲把床单扔在一边，正要把胳膊伸进桶里继续洗。