Keg
[keg] or [kɛɡ]
Definition
(noun.) small cask or barrel.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a keg.
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small cask or barrel.
Editor: Marilyn
Definition
n. a small cask or barrel.
Typist: Maura
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a keg, denotes you will have a struggle to throw off oppression. Broken ones, indicate separation from family or friends.
Checker: Stella
Examples
- I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I sat down upon a keg in the corner and thought the whole matter carefully over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Pepper, 1 quart white Vinegar, 1 Gloucester Cheese, 1 keg containing 20 lbs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The nails weighed 200 pounds to the keg, so there were lifted each time, from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds from the bed of the river. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I would not like to be positive, but I think we have seen as much as a keg of these nails. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The output of cut nails for the same year was 2,106,799 kegs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They were dropped into the stream, the current turned on, and five or six kegs of nails or bundles of wire were raised each trip. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1897 the wire nails produced in the United States amounted to 8,997,245 kegs of 100 pounds each, which nearly doubled the output of 1896. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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