cask
[kask, kahsk]
- a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- the quantity such a container holds: wine at 32 guineas a cask.
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- to place or store in a cask.
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Origin of cask
1425–75; late Middle English; back formation from casket, the -et being taken as the diminutive suffix
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cask
- a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drinka wine cask
- any barrel
- the quantity contained in a cask
- Australian a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
- engineering another name for flask (def. 6)
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Word Origin
C15: from Spanish casco helmet, perhaps from cascar to break
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Word Origin and History for casking
cask
n.
mid-15c., from Middle French casque "cask; helmet," from Spanish casco "skull, cask, helmet," originally "potsherd," from cascar "to break up," from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, frequentative of Latin quassare "to shake, shatter" (see quash). The sense evolution is unclear.
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