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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Firkin

a measure of quantity; half a kilderkin, 1465; as a small cask for liquids, fish, butter, etc.

Examples: firkin of ale [8 gallons], 1465; of beer [9 gallons], 1600; of butter [9 gallons], 1745; of eels [10 1/2 gallons], 1600; of herrings [8 gallons], 1600; of marlvoisie [‘malmsey wine’], 1828; of mead, 1713; of salmon, [10 1/2 gallons], 1600.

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firkin

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

fir·kin / ˈfərkən/ • n. chiefly hist. a small cask used chiefly for liquids, butter, or fish. ∎ a unit of liquid volume equal to half a kilderkin (about 11 gallons or 41 liters).

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

firkin †cask; quarter of a ‘barrel’ XV (ferdekyn, ferken). prob. — MDu. *vierdekijn, dim. of vierde FOURTH; see -KIN.

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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

firkin A quarter of a barrel of beer, 9 imperial gallons (40 L); also 56 lb (25.5 kg) of butter.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

firkin •grimalkin • lambkin • napkin • gaskin •lambskin • catkin •Larkin, parkin •calfskin • sharkskin • welkin •Potemkin • Jenkin • redskin •bearskin • snakeskin • Deakin •sealskin • sheepskin • chicken •limpkin • pipkin •griskin, siskin •pigskin • spillikin • ramekin •manikin, mannequin, pannikin •minikin • larrikin • Zworykin •wineskin • bodkin • Hodgkin •Donkin •Algonquin, Tonkin •Hopkin •Kropotkin, Watkin •walk-in • foreskin • doeskin •moleskin • goatskin • oilskin •coonskin • wolfskin • Pushkin •bumpkin, pumpkin •buskin, Ruskin •buckskin • deerskin • baldachin •manakin •firkin, gherkin, jerkin, merkin, Perkin

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