keg

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

keg [keg kegs] BrE [keɡ] NAmE [keɡ] noun
1. countable a round wooden or metal container with a flat top and bottom, used especially for storing beer, like a ↑barrel but smaller
2. uncountable (BrE) = ↑keg beer

Word Origin:
early 17th cent.: variant of Scots and US dialect cag, from Old Norse kaggi.

Example Bank:
•Not all keg beers are pasteurized.
•Since the overthrow of the government, the country had been a powder keg waiting to explode.
•a keg of beer
•Most of our beer is packaged in 50 litre aluminium kegs.