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Piercel :: Piercel (n.) A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

Contline :: Contline (n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

Unbung :: Unbung (v. t.) To remove the bung from; as, to unbung a cask..

Stale :: Stalder (n.) A wooden frame to set casks on.

Casket :: Casket (n.) A book of selections.

Caroteel :: Caroteel (n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc..

Winger :: Winger (n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships..

Head :: Head (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask..

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

Firkin :: Firkin (n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc..

Spurt :: Spurt (v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt..

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

Gauger :: Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains..

Ton :: Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..

Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor..

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