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Vat vs Kilderkin - What's the difference?

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Vat is a related term of kilderkin.


As nouns the difference between vat and kilderkin

is that vat is ford while kilderkin is a small barrel.

vat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
  • A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
  • (Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
  • (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)

    • Verb

    (vatt)
  • To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

    • 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.