firkin

He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”

The brewery has several hundred firkins — small casks full of finished beer — with dispensing devices called “beer engines” for serving on premises.

She was—sweet mercy in a firkin—she was a gruesome little baggage.

Breweries from all over the area bring firkins of their beer to the Penn Quarter brewpub for a night of tasting.

In the flesh, Ruth Davidson, 37, is a firkin of fun, speaks with a machine-gun delivery and can hold her own.