An English unit of liquid capacity = 2 firkins, = 16 gallons of ale or 18
gallons of beer before 1688; between 1688 and 1803, 17 gallons
either of beer or
ale; after 1824, 18 imperial gallons.
Abbreviation, “kils.”1.
1. See the brewer's invoice reproduced in North-Eastern Breweries, Ltd. v. Gibson (1904), The English and Empire Digest, vol. 44, page 132.
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