(n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stage 3 – fill the demijohn Now that the yeast has gained a strong hold over your must, we need to seal it away from dangerous oxygen – that which once fed your yeast could now ruin your wine.
(2) The sulphur dioxide released into the demijohn will kill the bacteria and also act as an antioxidant during bottling.
(3) Transfer your must to a sterile demijohn using a large funnel and an old but clean tea-towel to filter out the fruit pulp.
(4) If there is any space left in the demijohn, fill it up to just below the neck with clean water.
(5) To avoid this, transfer the wine to a new demijohn when there is 1-2 inches of sediment at the bottom.
(6) Over the next few months, exhausted yeast cells will sink to the bottom of your demijohn, forming a deposit known as "lees".
(7) Few things compare to the pleasure of sharing a glass of your homemade wine with your friends while plotting how you are going to fill your next demijohn.
(8) You can check the yeast has finished producing alcohol by moving the demijohn to a warm place for a few days to see if that wakes it up.
(9) When the demijohn is full put an airlock in the top; this will let the carbon dioxide escape but keep the oxygen out.
Wickerwork
Definition:
(n.) A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 15 of these, three types of arterial deformities (glomerular loop formations, vascular wickerworks and bundles) were frequently encountered.
(2) On the other hand, in PXE-D irregularly shaped and unevenly lined elastic strands may form an anastomotic wickerwork intimately intermingled with the collagenous texture.
(3) We reviewed 114 childhood brain tumors and brain sections from 30 children with no nervous system lesions to determine the incidence of vascular bundles (VB) and vascular wickerworks (VW).