Definition of ask

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Ask (v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread..

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Howel :: Howel (n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks..
Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To prevent casks from rolling.
Corf :: Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
Eelbuck :: Eelbuck (n.) An eelpot or eel basket.
Efflagitate :: Efflagitate (v. t.) To ask urgently.
Mask :: Mask (v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..
Visard :: Visard (v. t.) To mask.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Discount :: Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted..
Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc..
Beg :: Beg (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms..
Frail :: Frail (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins..
Cask :: Cask (n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc..
Who :: Who (object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and who
Antic-mask :: Antic-mask (n.) An antimask.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel..
Butt :: Butt (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
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