half-casks

Updated: June 21, 2025

And as soon as his eyes adjusted themselves to the gloom, he saw the place stowed tightly from floor to ceiling with kegs and half-casks, hooped and marked with black characters. "Gold?" he gasped, perspiration starting to his brows. "Gold!" Her rejoinder was tense, almost savage; she glared at him from under the torch, a quivering shape of disgust.

Aylward Edward Dingle - The Pirate Woman