kilderkin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch kinderkin, a variant of kinerkijn, itself a diminutive of kintal. See quintal.

Do you know Friar Claude of the high kilderkins? — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
The following articles formed our morning’s repast: one kit of boiled eggs; a second, full of butter; a third full of cream; an entire cheese, made of goat’s milk; a large earthen pot full of honey; the best part of a ham; a cold venison pasty; a bushel of oat meal, made in thin cakes and bannocks, with a small wheaten loaf in the middle for the strangers; a large stone bottle full of whisky, another of brandy, and a kilderkin of ale. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, T. (Tobias) Smollett
The following was the breakfast which in Argyleshire was set before the travellers in Humphry Clinker:— “One kit of boiled eggs; a second full of butter; a third full of cream; an entire cheese made of goat’s milk; a large earthen pot full of honey; the best part of a ham; a cold venison pasty; a bushel of oatmeal made in thin cakes and bannocks, with a small wheaten loaf in the middle for the strangers; a large stone bottle full of whisky, another of brandy, and a kilderkin of ale. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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