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cask

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cask
1. a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drink
2. Austral a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
3. Engineering another name for flask
cask [kask]
(nucleonics)
coffin


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However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I cannot throw the loop through this partition nor move with a pack-thread a cask of wine which may perhaps weigh two hundred pounds.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
At last he looked round, and saw that the cart was dripping, and the cask quite empty.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
 
 
 
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