keg
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From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”)
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keg (plural kegs)
- A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
- The strange man with a keg of liquor … the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—“Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon!” thought Rip; ….
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
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round wooden container that has a flat top and bottom
