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Definition of Kegful
1. Noun. The quantity contained in a keg.
Definition of Kegful
1. Noun. As much as a keg will hold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kegful
Literary usage of Kegful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Economic Organization by Leon Carroll Marshall, Leverett Samuel Lyon (1922)
"into a machine, and it rapidly pulls in the wire and drops out nails by the kegful.
Man first printed with a little hand press, but now we feed the roll of ..."
2. The Jonny-cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of by Thomas Robinson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Hazard (1915)
"... promising to give him half of the kegful if he would jest go down with him
that night and take the nigger's bones from off on top of it; but old Paris ..."
3. Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land by John Lloyd Stephens (1853)
"The Englishman had used kegs made for the purpose, and had more than a kegful
left, which he insisted on my taking. ..."
4. Voigtländer and I in Pursuit of Shadow Catching: A Story of Fifty-two Years by James Fitzallen Ryder (1902)
"The following morning I commenced the hunt for air-slacked lime. I had the great
luck to find, in the possession of a friend, a kegful ..."
5. Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (1904)
"... afraid to touch said bones he had come to get old Paris to go with him to
Wilson's woods and get the gold, promising to give him half of the kegful if ..."
6. Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land by John Lloyd Stephens (1845)
"The Englishman had used kegs made for the purpose, and had more than a kegful
left, which he insisted on my taking. ..."
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