Crossword clues for cask
cask
- Winery sight
- It can hold its wine
- Mason's work
- Ale vessel
- "The ___ of Amontillado"
- It may be full of wine
- It can hold its liquor
- Bourbon barrel
- It might be tapped
- Distillery sight
- Cooper creation
- Brandy holder
- Ale container
- Container in a wine cellar
- Wooden barrel
- Wine vat
- Wine cellar item
- Vintner's barrel
- Poe title container
- Barrel-shaped container
- Whisky vessel
- Whisky barrel
- Whiskey aging place
- Thing to help you hold your liquor
- Tasting room container
- Sherry holder
- Sherry container
- Sherry barrel
- Sake container
- Poe's amontillado container
- Pipe or butt
- Pipe or breaker
- Muscat holder
- Large wine barrel
- Its types include Bordeaux, Burgundy and Cognac
- It may have the spirit
- It has the spirit
- Container in a tasting room
- Container for amontillado
- Brewery buy
- Big wine container
- Amontillado vessel, in a Poe tale
- Amontillado container
- Aging site
- Aging barrel
- __.com (beer canning system seller)
- Wine shipment
- Amontillado holder
- Hogshead, for example
- Cooper's creation
- It has the spirit?
- Vineyard container
- Liquor holder
- Wine holder
- Port container
- Brewer's need
- Cellar container
- Wine vessel
- Vintner's container
- Wine barrel
- Cooper's handiwork
- Poe's "The ___ of Amontillado"
- Holder of spirits
- Distillery item
- A cylindrical container that holds liquids
- Tun, for one
- Container in a Poe tale
- Cellar item
- Container for wine
- Vessel for amontillado
- "The ___ of Amontillado," Poe story
- Barrellike container
- Rier or firkin
- Butt
- Liquid container
- Amontillado unit
- Wine container
- Amontillado container, for Poe
- Firkin
- Measure the contents of sack perhaps
- Clubs request a lot of beer?
- About to demand a strong wooden barrel
- Large barrel
- Beer barrel
- Small barrel
- Beer holder
- Large container
- Winery container
- Large vessel
- Brewery container
- Winery vessel
- Port vessel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cask \Cask\ (k[.a]sk), n. [Sp. casco potsherd, skull, helmet, prob. fr. cascar to break, fr. L. Quassure to break. Cf. Casque, Cass.]
Same as Casque. [Obs.]
A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
The quantity contained in a cask.
A casket; a small box for jewels. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Cask \Cask\, v. t. To put into a cask.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French casque "cask; helmet," from Spanish casco "skull, cask, helmet," originally "potsherd," from cascar "to break up," from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, frequentative of Latin quassare "to shake, shatter" (see quash). The sense evolution is unclear.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. 2 (context obsolete English) A casket; a small box for jewels. vb. To put into a cask.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "cask".
From the papers, Amy learned that the Pimpernel had spirited Papa out of prison disguised as a cask of cheap red wine.
I may observe that on this occasion we had an opportunity of ascertaining that good Burgundy, well racked off, and in casks hermetically sealed, does not lose its quality on a sea voyage.
The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.
Captain Pullings, and the shrill gun went off: its smoke had barely swept astern before the starboard target appeared, three masses of casks and worn-out sailcloth flying on upright spars, each representing the forecastle, waist and quarterdeck of a ship of the line, the whole towed on a long cablet by the boats of the squadron.
Hands freed, Cashel tilted the cask with one hand so that he could get his other under the lower rim.
The royal cellarman was screaming, red-faced, at a man who had brought him a cask of malmsey instead of the port he had ordered.
Not until I slipped from the stool and was unconscious, or disperh until you removed me to my cubiculum, did the murderer drag the body from the cask and then pull it along the tunnel and cast him backslash into the sea.
There Espe had shown him the entrance to an escape tunnel concealed behind one of the wine casks.
Figure 185 represents a well-known modern exhibitionist lifting with his teeth a cask on which are seated four men.
The Duchess of Fiano had sent a cask of wine, which was an unknown beverage there, and these presents made them hope for others.
I thanked the Greek for his delicious muscatel wine, and, requesting his address in Naples, I assured him that he would see me within a fortnight, as I was determined to secure a cask of his Cerigo.
Calabria, who oftentimes brings into the port excellent liquors of his country, and who would pass a cask of the red lachryma christi through the Broglio itself, and not a noble of them all should see it.
I have sent a dozen casks of lachryma christi up the canals since the masquers came abroad, and beyond that I have not occasion.
For the rest I laid in an eighteen-gallon cask of beer on credit, and a trustful baker came each day.
To the custodian of the Memorabilia, each unsealing represented another decrease in the probable lifetime of the contents of the cask, and he made no attempt to conceal his disapproval of the entire proceeding.