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CASK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cylindrical container that holds liquids
Synonyms:
barrel; cask
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cask" is a kind of...):
vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))
Meronyms (parts of "cask"):
breech; rear of barrel; rear of tube (opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded)
bung; spile (a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask)
hoop; ring (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)
lag; stave (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)
spigot; tap (a plug for a bunghole in a cask)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cask"):
beer barrel; beer keg (a barrel that holds beer)
butt (a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons))
hogshead (a large cask especially one holding 63 gals)
keg (small cask or barrel)
pickle barrel (a barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled)
shook (a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment)
tun (a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals)
wine barrel; wine cask (a barrel that holds wine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quantity a cask will hold
Synonyms:
cask; caskful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("cask" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples:
We were given a suit of sailors’ togs each, a barrel of water, two casks, one of junk and one of biscuits, and a compass.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted on full ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals to be put upon the corks, or finished bottles to be packed in casks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Have you looked behind the large cask?” said one of the others.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“If your cask is leer, I warrant your purse is full, gaffer,” shouted Hordle John.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fantastic as the situation was,—a land-lubber second in command,—I was, nevertheless, carrying it off well; and during that brief time I was proud of myself, and I grew to love the heave and roll of the Ghost under my feet as she wallowed north and west through the tropic sea to the islet where we filled our water-casks.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and what tenfold increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My box was at my old lodging, over the water, and I had written a direction for it on the back of one of our address cards that we nailed on the casks: Master David, to be left till called for, at the Coach Office, Dover.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There is one, Francois Villet, at Cahors, who will send me wine-casks for my cloth-bales, so to Cahors I will go, though all the robber-knights of Christendom were to line the roads like yonder poplars.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
