kilderkin

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But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.

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  1. noun A cask.
  2. noun An obsolete English measure of capacity equal to about 18 gallons (68 liters).

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  • And so, with great spirit, and still greater patience, they managed to save quite as many as deserved it Because, when they came within signal of the Gwalior, Captain Southcombe, marching slowly with his long limp burdens, found ready on the sand the little barrel, about as big as a kilderkin, of true and unsullied Stockholm pitch, which he had taken, as his brother took Madeira, for ripeness and for betterance, by right of change of climate. —  Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
  • Devil a drop have you left in the great kilderkin. —  The White Company
  • Whether in any foreign market, twopence advance in a kilderkin of corn could greatly affect our trade? —  Querist
  • But sure thou art but a kilderkin of wit. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
  • But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. —  English Satires
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  1. Middle English, alteration of Middle Flemish kinderkin, variant of Middle Dutch kindekijn : quintel, quintlein, quintal (from Medieval Latin quintāle; see quintal) + -kijn, diminutive suff.

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  1. from Middle English kylderkyn (1411); an altered form of kinderkin, irreg. kinderkind; from Middle Dutch kindeken, kinneken (Dutch kinnetje), a small vessel, the eighth part of a tun or vat, literally ‘a little child’ (cf. kinchin, from the same source), from kind, a child, + diminutive suffix -ken (= English -kin); in modern D. a different, suffix (-je).
 

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