Usage examples (19)

• Or his comic masterpiece, Mac Flecknoe, satirising an obscure Restoration rival: "A tun of man, in thy large bulk is writ,/but sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit"...
• 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,...
• Devil a drop have you left in the great kilderkin.
• Two firkins, or bushels, make a measure called a rundlet or kilderkin, liquid, and a strike, dry.