Cask: Definition and part of speech

Cask

  1. v. t. To put into a cask.
  2. n. Same as Casque.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. The quantity contained in a cask.
  5. n. A casket; a small box for jewels.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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