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单词 kilderkin
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kilderkin

English

Alternative forms

  • kinderkin

Noun

kilderkin (plural kilderkins)

  1. A small barrel.
  2. 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.
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