cask
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French casque.
Pronunciation Nouncask (plural casks)
- A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
- Hyponyms: tun (1), pipe (½), butt (½), puncheon (⅓), tertian (⅓), hogshead (¼), tierce (⅙), barrel (⅛), rundlet (⅟₁₄)
- (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], line 409:
- A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.
- (archaic, slang) A brougham or other private carriage.
- Obsolete form of casque
- French: tonneau, fût, barrique
- German: Fass, Faß, Tonne
- Italian: botte
- Portuguese: barril, casco
- Russian: бо́чка
- Spanish: cuba, tonel
cask (casks, present participle casking; simple past and past participle casked)
- To put into a cask.
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