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plural kilderkins
A small barrel. examples
An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or 83.178 L. quotations examples
Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 81