Ten-gallon cask

Usage examples of keg.

When they had raised their glasses together, Axel went off to see about a new keg, and the other men turned back to a game of draughts.

Corunna, coming on deck the following morning, found Marvin bargaining with the bumboat men whose small craft, laden with horse-meat, water kegs and newly-caught marine delicacies such as mussels and squid, were clustered at the waist of the Olive Branch like squash seeds floating beside a segment of their parent squash.

He replaced the keg in its chocks with neat precision and waved Zarantha towards the stairs.

It happened, however, that some unneighbourly person sent him notice of a clecking of tea chests, or brandy kegs, at which both Jenny and Betty Pawkie were the howdies.

By the time Asa finished his third helping of cobbler, he felt like he sat in the middle of a powder keg.

Surprise bore down, therefore, under her fighting-sails, with her master at the con, her guns run out, powder-boys sitting well behind them on their leather cartridge-cases, shot-garlands full, splinter-netting rigged, scuttle-butts all along, decks damped and sanded, and wet fearnought screens over the hatches leading to the magazine far below, where the gunner sat among his little deadly kegs.

His chest was as broad and as hard as one of the kegs in the larder, and his curly blond hair looked disheveled no matter how often he wetted or greased it down.

Just the same, Randal scanned the room warily as he and Lys made their way through the close- packed tables to where the landlord stood filling tankards from an open keg.

A fellow was selling nobblers out of a keg of brandy hanging from his neck.

Mackerel Cove was that the Toad, seen aground on the Clamshell June 19 by the Halifax lumberman, and found aground on the same ledge July 11 by the porgy steamer, had remained aground uninterruptedly between those two dates, the crew, meanwhile, consuming the four kegs of rum.

Paul told the negro to pull alongside and have the raftsman open the keg.

No, Keg sent his request for speed through his symbiont interface and the bike leaped forward.

The men exchanged looks, but Keg directed his symbiont to tow them to the base of an overhanging tree growing on a raised bit of swamp land.

At the sound of it the others stirred from their slumber and joined them as Keg directed his symbiont to pull them to shore.

Chardonnay, a puckering rendition of a California varietal she probably bought by the keg.