Firkin :
firkin
- firkin
Noun(1) a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons(2) a small wooden keg
(1) Our first cask conditioned ale night will feature a firkin of Oatmeal Stout.(2) But Craig, a former club footballer and referee, is confident the team has a good chance of winning and has donated a firkin to the players for after the game.(3) Other sizes were the firkin , kilderkin and hogshead.(4) A firkin of the four per cent beer has already been donated to the players but whether they will use it to toast their success or drown their sorrows remains to be seen.(5) Her own father was a cooper in Kilaville and made the firkins there.(6) The filled casks were then brought on small carts or by packhorses, each carrying two firkins .(7) The 655 rack will hold either two firkins or kils in a one over one configuration.(8) If you take a barrel to be two kilderkins and a kilderkin to be two firkins (which are themselves, of course, nine gallons), then the saving works out at about 14p per pint.(9) Five firkins - that's about 360 pints or 41 litres - of Black Satin, his latest brew, were snapped up from his brewery.(10) If that wasn't enough he has provided T-shirts for the gang to wear on the ride (no yellow jerseys required) and thrown in five firkins of beer.
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