Cask
[kɑːsk] or [kæsk]
Definition
(n.) Same as Casque.
(n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
(n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
(n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.
(v. t.) To put into a cask.
Typed by Anton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hooped wooden vessel (as a hogshead, &c.).[2]. Helmet, CASQUE.
Inputed by Bruno
Definition
n. a hollow round vessel for holding liquor made of staves bound with hoops: a measure of capacity: (obs.) a casque —v.t. to put in a cask.
Typist: Virginia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings. If empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation from outward influences.
Edited by Angelina
Examples
- Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He takes Mrs. Snagsby by the hand and leads her aside to an adjacent cask. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Wine-shop A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She drew a pitcher of beer from the cask for the soldiers, and invited the sergeant to take a glass of brandy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The liquid was forced from the cellar by the air pressure, and when turned off, the air pressure was resumed in the cask, which preserved the beer from being thrown into a state of flatness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- DEAR SIR, I received your very kind letter of February 27, together with the cask of porter you have been so good as to send me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Here you are in your house, and me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If in addition to this the casks are washed out with an aqueous solution of the acid it will prove of great service, and all other agents at present used for this purpose will soon be abandoned. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- For when I yielded to the temptation presented by the casks, and began to walk on them, I saw her walking on them at the end of the yard of casks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We were given a suit of sailor togs each, a barrel of water, two casks, one of junk and one of biscuits, and a compass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It could then in a few hours be dried in the sun, packed in casks, and sent to this or to other countries. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where the brewery had been, and where the gates, and where the casks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Nathaniel