Word Meanings - KEG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small cask or barrel.

Related words: (words related to KEG)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• BARRELED; BARRELLED
  Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• BARREL
  The hollow basal part of a feather. Barrel bulk , a measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. -- Barrel drain , a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
  Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• UNBARREL
  To remove or release from a barrel or barrels.
• BAPTISMALLY
  In a baptismal manner.