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Keg vs Kilderkin - What's the difference?

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Keg is a synonym of kilderkin.


As nouns the difference between keg and kilderkin

is that keg is a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer while kilderkin is a small barrel.

As a verb keg

is to store in a keg.

keg

English

(wikipedia keg)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
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    • Synonyms

    * barrel

    Derived terms

    * keg stand

    Verb

  • To store in a keg.
  • * 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
    • He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
  • * 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
    • Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

    Anagrams

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    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.