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Keg vs Kex - What's the difference?

keg | kex |

As nouns the difference between keg and kex

is that keg is a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer while kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.

As a verb keg

is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To store in a keg.

keg

English

(wikipedia keg)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
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    • Synonyms

    * barrel

    Derived terms

    * keg stand

    Verb

  • To store in a keg.
  • * 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
    • He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
  • * 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
    • Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

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    kex

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kix

    Noun

    (kexes)
  • The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
  • (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
  • (rare) A dry husk or covering.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
    • On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
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