Definition of cask

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Cask (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.

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Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask..
Casket :: Casket (n.) The tomb.
Faucet :: Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide..
Tap :: Tap (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet..
Empty :: Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties..
Leak :: Leak (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks..
Dowel :: Dowel (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask..
Bung :: Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
Casket :: Casket (n.) A book of selections.
Cradling :: Cradling (n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped..
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..
Casket :: Casket (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket..
Vent :: Vent (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent..
Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..
Tub :: Tub (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..
Coop :: Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
Head :: Head (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask..
Cask :: Cask (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.
Unsling :: Unsling (v. t.) To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings..
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