donkey n W C RUSSELL Sailor's Language (1883), p. 42 'a sailor's chest' for sense 2.
   1 A wooden barrel or cask for the export of dried and salted cod-fish.
   T 90-64 We had local names for the fish cask. The donkey was the one you put the large small fish in, the eighteen or twenty inches. [It had] a twenty-four inch head. P 127-76 ~ a four-quintal fish cask.
   2 A home-made wooden chest for storing clothes.
   C 68-1 The donkey, as it is commonly called, is about 2½ feet long, 2 feet wide and 1 1/2 feet high. It is made out of boards and has a cover on hinges.
   3 A frame on which logs are placed to be sawn (P 148-64).

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