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Bung :: Bung (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment..

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

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Bung :: Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..

Dunnage :: Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons..

Cooper :: Cooper (n.) Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper..

Cask :: Cask (v. t.) To put into a cask.

Abroach :: Abroach (adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped..

Stow :: Stow (v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves..

Harness Cask :: Harness cask () A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.

Head :: Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler..

Hogshead :: Hogshead (n.) A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons..

Barillet :: Barillet (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..

Cork :: Cork (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Reliquary :: Reliquary (n.) A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept..

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