firkin

How To Use firkin In A Sentence

• The 655 rack will hold either two firkins or kils in a one over one configuration.
• A firkin of the four per cent beer has already been donated to the players but whether they will use it to toast their success or drown their sorrows remains to be seen.
• Eight gallons make a measure called a firkin, in liquid substances, and a bushel, dry. Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State
• Two firkins, or bushels, make a measure called a rundlet or kilderkin, liquid, and a strike, dry. Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State
• Other sizes were the firkin, kilderkin and hogshead.
• A firkin, as the reader probably knows, is the least compromising of casks, and Mr Latter regularly attended in person to "spile" it. Nicky-Nan, Reservist
• The cask of Oakham Bishops Farewell is a full firkin which is about 80 pints. Long Island Beer Events
• This particular firkin is reserved for thirsty Long Island beer enthusiasts. Long Island Beer Events
• Gary Firkins has managed to put it in -- tall, impossibly green corn. Harold allinson
• If you take a barrel to be two kilderkins and a kilderkin to be two firkins (which are themselves, of course, nine gallons), then the saving works out at about 14p per pint.