scuttle-butt

In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

One ball had hit the scuttle-butt and had splashed the water fifteen feet in every direction.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

In terror lest the relief spy me and reveal my presence by some exclamation that Kipping or the second mate would overhear, I threw myself down flat on the deck just forward of the scuttle-butt, where the moon cast a shadow; and with the fervent hope that I should appear to be only a heap of old sail, I lay without moving a muscle.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

You'd better go to Mr. Carr and ask him for the scuttle-butt.

Bob the Castaway Frank V. Webster

So I ran lightly along in the shelter of the lee bulwark, dodging past the galley, the scuttle-butt, and the cabin in turn.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

I thought nothing of it, but drew a little water from the scuttle-butt, and washed my face and hands in one of the buckets.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

I tottered to the scuttle-butt, where we kept our drinking water; I splashed the contents of a couple of pannikins over my head and then drank about a pint and a half; that made me feel a different being.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

This made me feel less frightened, so I turned to my food, ate heartily, and took a good swig at the scuttle-butt by way of a morning draught.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

I rebuked myself for not having done this while aboard the lugger, when I had splashed my head at the scuttle-butt.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922