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kinkin

kinkin is the alternative form of kilderkin.

Meaning of kilderkin

Noun

kilderkin (plural kilderkins)

  1. A small barrel.
  2. An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or 83.178 L.
    • 1882: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

Forms of kinkin

pluralkinkins

Questions about kinkin

What is kinkin the alternative form of?
Kinkin is the alternative form of kilderkin.

Words near kinkin in the dictionary

  1. kinkhost
  2. Kinki
  3. kinkier
  4. kinkiest
  5. kinkily
  6. kinkin
  7. kinkiness
  8. kinkinesses
  9. kinking
  10. kinking on
  11. kinking out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kinkin (page history and authors); kilderkin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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