firkin

English Thesaurus

1. a small wooden keg (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	keg,
definition	:	small cask or barrel (noun.artifact)

2. a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	british capacity unit, imperial capacity unit,
definition	:	a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	congius, gallon, imperial gallon,
definition	:	a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters (noun.quantity)

part meronym	:	kilderkin,
definition	:	an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons (noun.quantity)