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cask
[ kask, kahsk ]
noun
- a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- the quantity such a container holds:
wine at 32 guineas a cask.
verb (used with object)
- to place or store in a cask.
cask
/ kɑːsk /
noun
- a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drink
a wine cask
- any barrel
- the quantity contained in a cask
- a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
- engineering another name for flask
Other Words From
- casklike adjective
- un·cask verb (used with object)
- un·casked adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cask1
Example Sentences
The resulting product included four single-cask variants along with finished pictures of McKidd enjoying a glass of The Macallan.
A bottle of The Glenlivet, aged in the cask longer than Poppet and Buster put together.
I learned that day of a process called “dry cask storage” that seems to offer a safer alternative.
Age whiskey in a sherry cask and it takes on flavor from the wood.
Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.
Near the stream we found some felled trees and the staves of a cask.
At this point he lost his balance, and went rolling to leeward like an empty cask.
I could see that a powerful effort was needed to keep him off the vexed question of the cask of beer, but he made it.
No rattle responded; but the despairing fact became apparent: the cask was empty!
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