cask

English

Etymology

From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑːsk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kæsk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

cask (plural casks)

1. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)

   Hyponyms: tun (1), pipe (½), butt (½), puncheon (⅓), tertian (⅓), hogshead (¼), tierce (⅙), barrel (⅛), rundlet (⅟₁₄)

2. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
   • 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:

     A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

3. (archaic, slang) A brougham or other private carriage.
4. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

Derived terms

• cask beer
• caskful
• casklike
• cask wine
• casky
• gang cask
• harness cask
• incask
• roching cask
• uncask

 

Translations

a large barrel for the storage of liquid

• Bulgarian: буре (bg) n (bure), бъчва (bg) f (bǎčva)
• Catalan: bóta (ca) f, tina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木桶 (zh) (mùtǒng)

• Dutch: ton (nl) m or f, vat (nl) n
• Finnish: tynnyri (fi)
• French: tonneau (fr) m, fût (fr) m, barrique (fr) f
• Galician: bocoi m, pipa (gl) f, cuba f
• German: Fass (de) n, Faß (de) n, Tonne (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πίθος m (píthos)

• Hebrew: חָבִית (he) f (khavít)
• Hungarian: hordó (hu)
• Irish: leastar m, buta m
• Italian: botte (it) f
• Japanese: カスク (kasuku), 桶 (ja) (おけ, oke)
• Korean: 통 (ko) (tong)
• Latin: dōlium n
• Macedonian: бочва f (bočva)
• Maltese: bittija f
• Maori: kāho
• Ottoman Turkish: شرابخانه (şarabhane)
• Polish: baryłka (pl) f, beczułka (pl) f, antałek (pl) m, antał (pl) m
• Portuguese: barril (pt) m, casco (pt) m
• Romanian: bute (ro) f, butoi (ro) n
• Russian: бо́чка (ru) f (bóčka), (small) бочо́нок (ru) m (bočónok)
• Sanskrit: कोश (sa) m or n (kośa)
• Scottish Gaelic: baraille m, togsaid f
• Spanish: cuba (es), tonel (es)
• Welsh: casgen f

References

• (carriage): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

cask (third-person singular simple present casks, present participle casking, simple past and past participle casked)

1. To put into a cask.

Related terms

• quash

Anagrams

• ACKs, KCAS, SKCA, acks, sack