Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cask or barrel with a capacity of about 30 gallons (114 liters).
- noun Such a container and its contents.
- noun A unit of weight used for nails, equal to 100 pounds (45.5 kilograms).
- transitive verb To put or store in a small cask or barrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cask or barrel; a cask-shaped vessel of indefinite size, but in capacity less than half a barrel, usually from 5 to 10 gallons.
- noun A lump; piece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small cask or barrel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
round , traditionallywooden container of lesser capacity than abarrel , often used tostore beer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small cask or barrel
- noun the quantity contained in a keg
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What they're saying is that the alcohol started out as a pre-party with the seniors and some of the girls who watched the videotape with me said that there were four kegs there and some of the video we showed you yesterday were girls doing what they called keg stands, hand stands on kegs, excessive amounts of drinking.
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 Plus that, the keg is enclosed, so the beer stays cold and there is less waste!
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 Buying beer by the keg is MUCH CHEAPER than buying it in the bottle.
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And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! "
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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And remember, the keg is reusable — think environment an’ [...]
Keg wine comes to the Finger Lakes, NY | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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I love that a keg is a "system" - but that's patent-ese for you.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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I love that a keg is a "system" - but that's patent-ese for you.
A Patent For An Integrated Substantially Thermally Sealed Insulated Keg 2009
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You just know that he didn't call the keg the next day like he promised.
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They say that what those seniors are doing are called keg stands.
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If the keg or barrel is filled with beer, the same becomes apparent from the beer showing itself in the glass gauge; then the faucet, B, is closed, the copper bung is lifted out of the bung hole, and the beer contained in the pipe is just sufficient to completely fill the keg, which is then bunged up, while the apparatus is transferred to the next keg.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various
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