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  • noun As much as a keg will hold.

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  • noun the quantity contained in a keg

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  • Parking at stansted airport, chloroquine, and adagio operatively jigsaw support verbalized kegful to bushwhacker lira with it innocently.

    Rational Review 2009

  • His head was as light as if he’d guzzled a kegful of rum all by himself, and just as he thought he would collapse, the gloomy passage was filled with a blinding dazzle.

    Pirates Linda Miller 1995

  • a shrewd and comical old blade, 'said he;' give her a kegful of beef or mutton, or both, and a good swill of ale or porter, or whatever she prefers.

    Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

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