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Keg


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cask or barrel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: supplied Nauru: a powder keg waiting to ignite All the signs suggest a moment of crisis is approaching on Nauru .
  • (2) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
  • (3) On the front line in Brazil’s war on Zika: ‘I felt I was in a horror movie’ Read more In global health security terms, this is a potential powder keg.
  • (4) Eight cask pumps showcase Leeds beers (try the pale or the dark mild, Midnight Bell) and four guests, with keg lines, such as a craft lager from York micro Hop Studio, adding interest.
  • (5) Taiwan is another powder keg that could be ignited by widening US-China confrontation.
  • (6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (7) The molecule resembles a keg 105 A along the 4-fold axis and 132 A in diameter at the widest point of the keg.
  • (8) The brain tumor models were produced in syngeneic Wister-King-Aptekman male rats with stereotaxic inoculation of ethylnitrosourea-induced glioma cells (KEG-1).
  • (9) Quality beers are now being produced in kegs, bottles and even cans, helping craft brewers offset the rapid decline of high street pubs.
  • (10) Many craft beers, including BrewDog’s, do not qualify as real ale under Camra’s strict criteria simply because, although some are served from casks, most come in kegs, bottles and cans, and with added CO2.
  • (11) Long before Brewdog opened, Port Street was already turning Mancunians on to explosively hoppy US imports, edgy craft keg beers and impoverishing those who couldn't resist that second bottle of Alesmith Speedway Stout (750ml, £18).
  • (12) Prices for the craft keg beers (from £4.60 a pint) can get silly, but it goes with the territory.
  • (13) This real ale redoubt for dissenting Village drinkers serves six cask ales (from local outfits such as Little Valley, Beartown, Dunham Massey, etc), two craft keg beers from Bury's Outstanding and a short, solid list of imported bottled beers, including Flying Dog's Raging Bitch and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.
  • (14) Looking back, that was a powder keg waiting for a match.
  • (15) Many in Camra still believe that cask is good and keg is bad.
  • (16) Others include Blackshore Stout and a dry hopped keg lager.
  • (17) She felt the lack of political will to tackle public health issues was a powder keg waiting to explode in one way or the other,” said her brother Albert, a GP based in the UK.
  • (18) This article reviews the most recent literature and discusses the author's "powder keg and tinderbox" theory of idiopathic calcium stone disease.
  • (19) It’s that people will choose not to buy something that they don’t like or want.” Ryan claims to have been dreaming of slashing social programs since his days doing keg stands, and when he and other Republicans managed to push the similarly disastrous American Health Care Act through the House, they wheeled out cases of beer to celebrate.
  • (20) Feral Hop Hog IPA, Swan Valley, WA It was only three years ago that a Melbourne pub, the Great Northern Hotel, first secured a few kegs of beer from WA’s Feral Brewing.

Skeg


Definition:

  • (n.) A sort of wild plum.
  • (n.) A kind of oats.
  • (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the 1980s, the British government tried to claim that the beaches of Brighton, Blackpool, Skegness and many other resorts weren’t used for bathing, to avoid dealing with the sewage, condoms and tampons that polluted them.
  • (2) Able to live on his savings from the restaurant, he took up his place; Dusty went to Skegness to work as a waitress.
  • (3) Nuttall will stand for Boston and Skegness in the June election, after losing the Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection in February.
  • (4) Mark Simmonds, conservative MP for Boston and Skegness, has resigned, citing the intolerable pressure of trying to live in London on an MP’s expenses.
  • (5) In the 2013 local elections, this county saw Ukip's best single result , when 16 new Ukip county councillors were elected, and the party became the official opposition; among the parliamentary seats that are reckoned to be vulnerable to a Ukip surge are Labour-held Great Grimsby, and Boston and Skegness, currently represented by the Tories.
  • (6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
  • (7) Skegness Tidal Surge A surge results in a particularly high tide in Skegness on the evening of Thursday 5 December 2013.
  • (8) Ukip under the current leadership, without positive radical policies, is finished as an electoral force.” The party lost 10 seats in Lincolnshire, where Nuttall has decided to run in the general election in the Boston and Skegness seat .
  • (9) Don't let the name put you off: Skegness (nicknamed Skeggy) has a wonderful beach, wide and largely empty, especially to the south towards Gibraltar Point.
  • (10) Moby doesn’t float my boat Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three dead whales wash up on Skegness beach – video After the heartbreak of the recent stranded whales , it’s lovely to see such a happy creature on the shores of Loch Nevis.
  • (11) Three dead sperm whales wash up on Skegness beach Read more These young males head north, enter the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, and unfortunately find this shallow sea a natural trap – difficult to navigate and short of food.
  • (12) And in the last chance saloon, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall said he would stand in the heavily Brexit-supporting constituency of Boston and Skegness as support for his party drops by the week, with many voters defecting to the Tories.
  • (13) Robert Pert, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, is among those hit by this loophole.
  • (14) After a lunch of strong tea and fish and chips in Mablethorpe, where children can jump on a small fleet of donkeys (and we gambled a plastic cupload of pennies in the amusement arcade), we dined out at the Windmill restaurant in Burgh-Le-Marsh, a few miles inland from Skegness.
  • (15) The Ministry of Defence said about 100 soldiers from the Catterick army base in Yorkshire had been deployed to Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast, where about 3,000 residents were urged to leave their homes or move upstairs.
  • (16) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
  • (17) Well, for every teacher heading to Saudi Arabia, there’s a classroom in Skegness missing one.
  • (18) On a grim and blustery morning in the town some people know as "Skeg", conversations with locals suggest a town much more weary and fatalistic than Great Yarmouth, although people have a similar litany of complaints: awful local roads, shut-down shops, an economy that effectively dies for half the year.
  • (19) The first is the direct threat of a Ukip victory in a handful of mostly Conservative seats, such as South Thanet, Boston and Skegness, Castle Point, and Thurrock.
  • (20) After being unfrocked, Davidson eked out a living as an entertainer on the seafront at Skegness - where, in 1937, he was mauled to death by a lion.

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