A small wooden or metal barrel used to store liquids like beer, wine, or gunpowder.
From Old Norse 'kaggi,' meaning barrel or cask. The word was adopted into Middle English as Vikings and Scandinavian traders brought both the word and the useful containers to Britain around the 9th-10th centuries.
Before plastic cups and bottles, kegs were how most beer was transported and stored, and the shape became so iconic that we still use them today—a keg party is basically a 1,000-year-old Scandinavian tradition!
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