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firkin Noun 1. a small wooden barrel or similar container 2. Brit a unit of capacity equal to nine gallons [Middle Dutch vierde fourth] Firkin a measure of quantity; half a kilderkin, 1465; as a small cask for liquids, fish, butter, etc. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Firkin (who was dressing the very small remnant of hair which remained on Miss Crawley's pate), flung up her head and said, "I think Miss is very clever," with the most killing sarcastic air. I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each. "While I," quoth the other loudly, "do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water. |
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