different between hogshead vs kilderkin

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English hogshead, hagyshed, hogeyshed, hoggesyde, hokkeshed, Middle English hoggeshed, hogges-hed, hogeshed, hoggeshede, hoggesheed, hoggesheudes, hoggesheved, hoggishede, hoggisheed, hoggyssehed, hogyshed, hoogeshed (“measure of liquid capacity equivalent to about 63 gallons; large barrel or cask”, literally “hog’s head”), from hog, hogge (“swine, especially a castrated male swine”) + hed (“animal or human head”), equivalent to hog +? 's +? head. The connection between the cask and the head of a hog is uncertain, but may refer to the shape of the cask. The word has often been borrowed into other languages as “ox-head”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??z?h?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??z?h?d/, /?h??z-/
• Hyphenation: hogs?head

Noun

hogshead (plural hogsheads)

1. (Britain) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52+¹?₂ imperial gallons; a half pipe.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) hhd.
2. A large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

Translations

References

Further reading

• hogshead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hogshead.

Noun

hogshead m (plural hogsheads)

1. hogshead (an English measure of liquids)

English

Alternative forms

• kinderkin

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch kinderkin, a variant of kinerkijn, itself a diminutive of kintal. See quintal.

Noun

kilderkin (plural kilderkins)

1. A small barrel.
2. An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or 83.178 L.
   • 1882: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.