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Webster 1913 Edition


Keg

Keg

(kĕg)
,
Noun.
[Earlier
cag
, Icel.
kaggi
; akin to Sw.
kagge
.]
A small cask or barrel.

Webster 1828 Edition


Keg

KEG

,
Noun.
A small cask or barrel; written more correctly cag.

Definition 2024


keg

keg

English

A typical keg (half-barrel) with single opening in the center of the top end.

Noun

keg (plural kegs)

  1. A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

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Verb

keg (third-person singular simple present kegs, present participle kegging, simple past and past participle kegged)

  1. (transitive) To store in a keg.
    • 2011, Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
      He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
    • 2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
      Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

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