demijohn
- n large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork
- When Aba had to be evacuated last month for lack of ammo, Paddy was one of the last men out, a machine gun in one hand, a demijohn of wine in the other.
- Last fortnight Hemingway, a few Cubans and the usual wicker demijohn of wine went swordfishing.
- What the letters naturally did not mention was the fact that at the time of the interview Faulk ner had spent several days working his way through a demijohn of bourbon, a bout .