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" (kilderkin: an old English unit of volume equal to two firkins). From Wordnik.com. [Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Devil a drop have you left in the great kilderkin. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Two firkins, or bushels, make a measure called a rundlet or kilderkin, liquid, and a strike, dry. From Wordnik.com. [Public Papers] Reference
Whether in any foreign market, twopence advance in a kilderkin of corn could greatly affect our trade?. From Wordnik.com. [Querist] Reference
Court, where flattery is sold by the kilderkin, malignity and ill-offices are measured out in bushels, deceit and treachery are weighed by the ton!. From Wordnik.com. [Pentamerone. English] Reference
Was I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
"Were I Diogenes," says wrathful Charles Lamb in one of his letters, "I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.". From Wordnik.com. [Suburban Sketches] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. From Wordnik.com. [Suburban Sketches] Reference
Olave, and other messuages in the same parish, upon condition that they should, quarterly and for ever, distribute among the poorest and neediest people in the Poultry Compter one kilderkin of beer and twelve pennyworths of bread, and the same to the poor of Wood Street. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852] Reference
September, 1529, the price of a kilderkin of single beer was fixed at a shilling, the kilderkin of double beer at two shillings; but this included the cask; and the London brewers replied with a remonstrance, saying that the casks were often destroyed or made away with, and that an allowance had to be made for bad debts. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
One kilderkin of ale 2 3. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829] Reference
To a small kilderkin of beer. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
But sure thou art but a kilderkin of wit. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Two bushels, or firkin, a strike or kilderkin. From Wordnik.com. [Public Papers] Reference
14. kilderkin. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
West Saxon, who was reckoning up how much liquor had passed through him in the last twenty years of his life, which, according to his computation, amounted to twenty-three hogsheads of October, four ton of port, half a kilderkin of small-beer, nineteen barrels of cyder, and three glasses of champaigne; besides which he had assisted at four hundred bowls of punch, not to mention sips, drams, and whets without number. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
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