cask
verbEtymology From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.
1
To put into a cask.
- Related terms
- quash
cask
nounUK /kɑːsk/ · US /kæsk/
Etymology From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.
1
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
2
Obsolete A casket; a small box for jewels.
- A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 409:
4
Obsolete Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).
- Derived terms
- cask beer, caskful, casklike, cask wine, casky, gang cask, harness cask, incask, roching cask, uncask