keg

From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”).

• IPA^(key): /kɛɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ
• (dated, South Midland US) IPA^(key): /kæɡ/[1]
• (dated, New England, Virginia, South Carolina) IPA^(key): /keɪɡ/[1]

keg (plural kegs)

1. A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:

     The strange man with a keg of liquor … the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—“Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon!” thought Rip; ….

• barrel

• keg stand
• pony keg
• kegger

keg (third-person singular simple present kegs, present participle kegging, simple past and past participle kegged)

1. (transitive) To store in a keg.
   • 2011, Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)

     He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.

   • 2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)

     Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

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