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cask

[ kask, kahsk ]

noun

  1. a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
  2. the quantity such a container holds:

    wine at 32 guineas a cask.



verb (used with object)

  1. to place or store in a cask.

cask

/ °ìɑ˲õ°ì /

noun

  1. a strong wooden barrel used mainly to hold alcoholic drink

    a wine cask

  2. any barrel
  3. the quantity contained in a cask
  4. a lightweight cardboard container with plastic lining and a small tap, used to hold and serve wine
  5. engineering another name for flask
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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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cask1

1425–75; late Middle English; back formation from casket, the -et being taken as the diminutive suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cask1

C15: from Spanish casco helmet, perhaps from cascar to break
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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.

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The most expensive cask she bought – which cost her £49,500 – does not exist.

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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.

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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.

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A winemaker shaded his casks under its limbs, then German immigrants bought the winery and turned it into a brewery.

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