Usage examples for keg:

• As Dan lay in bed he could not get this keg of powder out of his head. "For the Liberty of Texas" – Edward Stratemeyer

• They took the lantern and went out to see what it was and found that their water barrel had returned home, but it had rolled so far it had worn down to about the size of a nail keg "The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography" – Johnson, Clarence Edgar

• Biscuits and water are stored in the lantern keg with matches and whatever else may be needful. "The Sea Bride" – Ben Ames Williams

• After a while Rip began to grow a little less frightened, and he even ventured, when no one was observing him, to take a good draught out of the keg himself. "The Strange Story Book" – Mrs. Andrew Lang