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Kilderkin  n.  (Written also kinderkin)  A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.





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... Taylor willed to the Leathersellers' Company a messuage, tenement, and melting-house, in the parish of St Olave, and other messuages in the same parish, upon condition that they should, quarterly and for ever, distribute among the poorest and neediest people in the Poultry Compter one kilderkin of beer and twelve pennyworths of bread, and the same to the poor of Wood Street Compter, Newgate, and the Fleet, the King's Bench, and the Marshalsea prisons. Under this bequest, the Company are at present in possession ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various


Words linked to "Kilderkin" :   British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit, firkin


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