kags

The few among the nightly loungers there who had still a remnant of domestic conscience left had already risen from boxes and "kags," and gathered up the pound packages of sugar and coffee which had served as the pretext for their coming, but which would not, alas! sufficiently account for the length of their stay.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

They have gone to work now and painted all the trays and paint-kags they can find red, and filled them with one thing another, and set them round the house.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

"I'd recommend you to take another seat with yore pipes, fur one of them kags is filled with ile, and the other with gun-paowder."

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

Oh, 'twas a grand shindig -- tin millions iv men, women, an 'childher rowlin' on th 'flure, hands an' feet goin ', ice-picks an' hurlin 'sticks, clubs, brickbats, an' beer kags flyin 'in th' air!

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

An 'I held it, and he rummaged in the arches an' under the stairs, an 'over in some old closet where he reached out bottles an' stone jugs an 'canted some kags an' one or two casks, an 'chuckled well when he heard there was somethin' inside, -- but there wa'n't nothin 'to find but things usual in a cellar, an' then the old lantern was givin 'out an' we come away.

The Foreigner 1900

"They're like empty nail-kags, and they'll eat a lot of vittles and we've got the money to pay!"

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

But the person that et it would want to fetch a couple of kags of toothpicks along, for if that rope ladder wouldn't cramp him down to business I don't know nothing what I'm talking about, and lay him in enough stomach-ache to last him till next time, too.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

But the person that et it would want to fetch a couple of kags of toothpicks along, for if that rope ladder wouldn't cramp him down to business I don't know nothing what I'm talking about, and lay him in enough stomach-ache to last him till next time, too.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last Mark Twain 1872

But the person that et it would want to fetch a couple of kags of toothpicks along, for if that rope ladder wouldn't cramp him down to business I don't know nothing what I'm talking about, and lay him in enough stomach-ache to last him till next time, too.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

With kags and pails of foaming ales of brown October brew.

A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872