KEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keg mean? 

• KEG (noun)
  The noun KEG has 2 senses:

1. the quantity contained in a keg

2. small cask or barrel

  Familiarity information: KEG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a keg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

keg; kegful

Hypernyms ("keg" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small cask or barrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("keg" is a kind of...):

barrel; cask (a cylindrical container that holds liquids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "keg"):

firkin (a small wooden keg)

powder keg (keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder)

 Context examples 

“Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with ME?” roared Silver, bending far forward from his position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in his right hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I sat down upon a keg in the corner and thought the whole matter carefully over.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind the hogshead, on a half circle of kegs, boxes, and rude settles, sat Aylward, John, Black Simon and three or four other leading men of the archers, together with Goodwin Hawtayne, the master-shipman, who had left his yellow cog in the river to have a last rouse with his friends of the Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Dick,” said Silver, “I trust you. I've a gauge on the keg, mind. There's the key; you fill a pannikin and bring it up.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)