kilderkins

“In order to ensure having good wholesome beer, it is necessary to calculate your brewing at the rate of two bushels of malt and two pounds of hops to fifty-four gallons of water; these proportions, well managed, will produce three kilderkins of good beer.”

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

“The few kilderkins of beer which are drunk by the common folk make little difference one way or the other.”

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734

“There were hogsheads of corned beef, barrels of salt pork, tubs of hams being salted in brine, tonnekens of salt shad and mackerel, firkins of butter, kegs of pigs 'feet, tubs of souse, kilderkins of lard.”

Home Life in Colonial Days

“Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.”

Public Papers

“Ods-kilderkins, said Panurge, it seems then we are within two fingers 'breadth of damnation.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

“Ods-kilderkins, said Panurge, it seems then we are within two fingers’ breadth of damnation.”

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel