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cask
[ kask, kahsk ]
noun
- a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- the quantity such a container holds:
wine at 32 guineas a cask.
verb (used with object)
- to place or store in a cask.
cask
/ °ìɑ˲õ°ì /
noun
- a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drink
a wine cask
- any barrel
- the quantity contained in a cask
- a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
- engineering another name for flask
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦²¹²õ°ìl¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·³¦²¹²õ°ì verb (used with object)
- ³Ü²Ô·³¦²¹²õ°ì±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cask1
Example Sentences
Yet the investors discovered that many of the casks they had bought, had either been heavily overpriced – up to five times in some cases – or didn't exist at all.
The most expensive cask she bought – which cost her £49,500 – does not exist.
In one case, a damaged heap of commercial spent-fuel rods from Michigan’s Big Rock Point nuclear power plant were over-stuffed into some casks that were meant to be taken to a storage site via train.
Eventually, vitrified low-activity waste will be disposed of on-site in stainless steel casks, and a separate melter just for high-level waste will come online to manage the most toxic waste.
A winemaker shaded his casks under its limbs, then German immigrants bought the winery and turned it into a brewery.
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