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Cask vs Kilderkin - What's the difference?

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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 large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
  • (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
  • A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

    Derived terms

    * cask beer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a cask.
  • Anagrams

    * *

    kilderkin

    English

    Alternative forms

    *kinderkin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.