flask

¹

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

1. a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
2. a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:

   a flask of brandy.

3. an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kilograms).
4. Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.

flask

²

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

, Ordnance.

1. the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
2. Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.

flask

/ flɑːsk /

noun

1. a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
2. Also calledhip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
3. See powder flask
4. a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry
5. See vacuum flask
6. Also calledcaskcoffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel

flask

/ flăsk /

1. A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flask¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English: “cask, keg,” from Anglo-French, Old French flaske, Late Latin flasca, earlier flascō, of uncertain origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca ( German flasche ); flagon

Origin of flask²

1570–80; < dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage < Late Latin flasca flask ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of flask¹

C14: from Old French flasque, flaske , from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco , perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe

Example Sentences

You had a glass syringe with a steel needle that you sent away to get sharpened and you had to boil them up on the stove, and keep them in a flask.

From BBC

This was when Hill said she hit her victim with a flask and then, when the 90-year-old continued to shout, smothered her.

From BBC

A carer who hit a "defenceless and vulnerable" 90-year-old woman in her own home with a metal flask before smothering her with a pillow has been jailed for murder.

From BBC

It depends on what product you’re peppering into your Hydro Flask.

From Los Angeles Times

Sifting through the remains of a Gaulish village on cliff-tops near Dieppe on Monday, they uncovered an earthenware pot containing a small glass flask.

From BBC

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