kilderkins

Meaning of kilderkins

noun
  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.

Information about kilderkins

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of kilderkins is: kilderkin.
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Hyphenation of kilderkins

kilderkins

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 10 chars.
  • kilderkins is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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