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cask

[ kask, kahsk ]

noun

  1. a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
  2. the quantity such a container holds:

    wine at 32 guineas a cask.



verb (used with object)

  1. to place or store in a cask.

cask

/ kɑːsk /

noun

  1. a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drink

    a wine cask

  2. any barrel
  3. the quantity contained in a cask
  4. a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
  5. See flask
    engineering another name for flask


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Other Words From

  • casklike adjective
  • un·cask verb (used with object)
  • un·casked adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cask1

1425–75; late Middle English; back formation from casket, the -et being taken as the diminutive suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cask1

C15: from Spanish casco helmet, perhaps from cascar to break

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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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