Sc. Obs. Also 6 kynkyn, 7 kinkine, 8 kinken. [a. MDu. kintken, kinneken, var. of kindeken KILDERKIN. See also KEMPKIN.] ‘A small barrel, a keg, a kilderkin’ (Jam.).
c. 1500. in Cosmo Innes, Scot. in Mid. Ages, viii. (1860), 248. [The Abbot of Holyrood is charged for a] kynkyn [of olives].
1594. Compt Buik D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.), 132. To by a kynkyn seap.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1851), II. 469. He cumis down Die syd … plunderis about 20 barrellis or kinkenis of pulder.
1685. in Scott. N. & Q. (1900), Dec., 92/1. Half kinkin soap.
