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keg

noun as in barrel

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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

For the senior senator from Louisiana, the lasting image from her fourth Senate campaign will be a keg stand.

Not her own—but Landrieu did provide an assist to a man doing a keg stand at Louisiana State University.

We played keg parties, but everyone was there for the free beer, not for us.

Logic is a rare bird in these parts and Crimea is nothing short of a powder keg.

If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

A small keg, or breaker, was thrown overboard and picked up, with a bag of fifteen or twenty pounds of hardtack.

More than that, he always washed before eating, even if he had to divide the last water in the keg.

Gossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.

So Ralph fell to on the bag of biscuit and the keg of water, while Duff bathed and bound up his leg as best he could.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to keg, such as: cask, butt, container, drum, firkin, and hogshead.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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