Cask vs Kilderkin - What's the difference?
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A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
(obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
* 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
A small barrel.
An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
*1882 : 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 205.
As nouns the difference between cask and kilderkin
is that cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks while kilderkin is a small barrel.As a verb cask
is to put into a cask.cask
English
(wikipedia cask)Noun
(en noun)- A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.