cask
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5.0
- noun
- /kæsk/
:
barril
- Beef, boar's head, casks of ale.
- wine casks
- cask of water
- single cask
Examples
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Eighty years ago, it would surely have been right to order beer or the house wine fresh from the watered cask.
Fiction book (2001) -
Crew members sifted flour from barrel to barrel and drained each water cask into another through a fine screen mesh.
Fiction book (1992) -
But then also you age these casks by the seaside.
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He preferred to exchange his water casks for a few cases of the Riojas and Logronos that the Spanish captains brought him.
Fiction book (1996) -
The brewery sells a large cask of its popular stout to local pubs.
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After the fermentation process, we filled a cask with the rich, dark ale.
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The restaurant ran out of their special reserve, which was stored in a cask in the cellar.
Synonyms
18
2.0
An amount of beer in a small barrel
The amount of liquid a full barrel or cask holds
An old large wooden barrel used to hold about forty two gallons
A large wooden barrel once used to hold wine or ale
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Etymology
Cask can also mean the amount that fills one of those barrels because people often measured goods by the wooden 'box' itself. So a cask can mean either the container or the quantity of liquid inside it.