cask
Other forms: casks
A barrel-shaped container that holds wine or other, usually alcoholic, beverages is called a cask. If you visit a winery, you will often see many rows of wooden wine-filled casks lining the caves and cellars of the winery. If you have a large party, you can open a cask of wine.
Experts aren't exactly sure what the origin of the word cask is. They know that it is a noun that comes from the Middle French word casque or the Spanish word casco, and both mean "helmet," but how we got from helmet to wine-filled barrel-shaped container is unclear. Students may have heard of the word cask from Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story of revenge and murder set in a wine cellar, "The Cask of Amontillado."
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a cylindrical container that holds liquidssynonyms: barreltypes:butta large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)hogsheada large cask especially one holding 63 galskegsmall cask or barrelpickle barrela barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickledshooka disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipmenttuna large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 galsfirkina small wooden kegpowder kegkeg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powderwater butta butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwatertype of:vesselan object used as a container (especially for liquids)
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the quantity a cask will holdsynonyms: caskfultype of:containerfulthe quantity that a container will hold
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