Flask
[flɑːsk] or [flæsk]
Definition
(noun.) bottle that has a narrow neck.
(noun.) the quantity a flask will hold.
Editor: Nita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
(n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
(n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
(n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Checker: Lorrie
Definition
n. a narrow-necked vessel for holding liquids: a bottle: a pocket-bottle: a horn or metal vessel for carrying powder.—n. Flask′et a vessel in which viands are served: (Spens.) a basket.—Florence flask a narrow-necked globular glass bottle of thin glass as those in which olive-oil is brought from Italy.
Edited by Blair
Examples
- He handed the old man his flask. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But the flask was not there when he felt for it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At No. 9 a flask of liquid air is made to boil by the mere heat of the hand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Cut the camomile in pieces and rub fine with the sal-ammoniac; add the lavender water and vinegar by placing all in a glass flask and let it digest for twelve hours and filter. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He was like a flask that is smashed to atoms, he seemed to himself that he was all fragments, smashed to bits. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Robert Jordan handed him the flask and he swallowed fast, then wiped his mouth on the back of his hand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Loerke shook the flask--then he held it inverted over the snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He jerked forward the flask and Rigg went to a fine old oaken bureau with his keys. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then he remembered that he had the small flask in his hip pocket and he thought, I'll take a good spot of the giant killer and then I'll try it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Two flasks and two tubes are arranged as in Figure 15, the upper flask containing a colored liquid and the lower flask clear water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They were mostly vermouth bottles, marsala bottles, capri bottles, empty chianti flasks and a few cognac bottles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Maurice, with considerable forethought, took Crispin with him below, and they filled their travelling-flasks with brandy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Edited by Anselm