DCHP-3

keg

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

See muskeg.

See: muskeg

Quotations

1903
There is only one approach to it, and that's across the keg. In winter that can be crossed anywhere, but no sane person would trust himself in the foot-hills at that time of year. . . .
1934
For a diver to reach the wreck, he would have to penetrate twenty feet or so of sticky muskeg and though . . . a diver had forced his way down through twenty-eight feet of "keg," it was a risk fraught with dire possibilities.