kilderkin
Americannoun
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a unit of capacity, usually equal to half a barrel or two firkins.
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an English unit of capacity, equal to 18 imperial gallons (82 liters).
noun
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an obsolete unit of liquid capacity equal to 16 or 18 Imperial gallons or of dry capacity equal to 16 or 18 wine gallons
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a cask capable of holding a kilderkin
Etymology
Origin of kilderkin
1350–1400; Middle English, dissimilated variant of kinderkin < Middle Dutch, equivalent to kinder (≪ Arabic qinṭār quintal ) + -kin -kin
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What worms do another day, I care not, but I'll be sworn upon a whole kilderkin of single beer, I will not have a worm-eaten nose, like a pursuivant, while I live.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Hear'st thou, dough-belly! because thou talk'st and talk'st, and dar'st not drink to me a black jack, wilt thou give me leave to broach this little kilderkin of my corpse against thy back?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Whether in any foreign market, twopence advance in a kilderkin of corn could greatly affect our trade?
From Querist by George Berkeley
Devil a drop have you left in the great kilderkin.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou art but a kilderkin of wit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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