KILDERKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilderkin mean? 

• KILDERKIN (noun)
  The noun KILDERKIN has 1 sense:

1. an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons

  Familiarity information: KILDERKIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILDERKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)

Meronyms (parts of "kilderkin"):

firkin (a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons)

 Context examples 

“You take it with you. Devil a drop have you left in the great kilderkin. It was time for you to go.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)