Cask
noun
A large barrel-like container made of wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.
The wine in the cask is transferred to bottles after two years.
Often appears as...
- cask of wine
- cask of beer
noun
A unit of measure for liquids, especially wine, equal to about 18 gallons or 68 liters.
Since a cask can hold 18 gallons, this brewery produces over 500 casks of beer per year.
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Formal
Technical
noun
A large barrel-like container made of wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.
The wine in the cask is transferred to bottles after two years.
Often appears as...
- cask of wine
- cask of beer
noun
A unit of measure for liquids, especially wine, equal to about 18 gallons or 68 liters.
Since a cask can hold 18 gallons, this brewery produces over 500 casks of beer per year.
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Storage Container
Cask implies storage, often for aging drinks like wine or whiskey to improve flavor over time.
Distilleries age whiskey in oak casks for several years.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
Casks can be made from different materials, which may affect the taste of its contents.
The brewery uses steel casks for their lager to preserve its purity.
Pro Tip 3/3Associated Drinks
Casks are mostly associated with alcoholic beverages, not other types of liquids.
The vintage port was decanted from a cask for the tasting event.
Pro Tip 1/3Storage Container
Cask implies storage, often for aging drinks like wine or whiskey to improve flavor over time.
Distilleries age whiskey in oak casks for several years.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
Casks can be made from different materials, which may affect the taste of its contents.
The brewery uses steel casks for their lager to preserve its purity.
Pro Tip 3/3Associated Drinks
Casks are mostly associated with alcoholic beverages, not other types of liquids.
The vintage port was decanted from a cask for the tasting event.
Pro Tip 1/3Storage Container
Cask implies storage, often for aging drinks like wine or whiskey to improve flavor over time.
Distilleries age whiskey in oak casks for several years.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
Casks can be made from different materials, which may affect the taste of its contents.
The brewery uses steel casks for their lager to preserve its purity.
Pro Tip 3/3Associated Drinks
Casks are mostly associated with alcoholic beverages, not other types of liquids.
The vintage port was decanted from a cask for the tasting event.
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
is thus understandable within the context of a flame consuming the last drops of oil in a lantern or a valve drawing out the contents of the bottom of a cask. Though perhaps not derived directly from this subsiding verb, our modern meaning of fizzle
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Debate: Does the world...
Then what happens to the waste? The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet. It's just as well, because it can stay where it is.
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Black Market Demand for...
the endangered helmeted hornbill which is becoming extremely rare in borneo rainforest is the only hornbill species in the world whose cask is composed of ivory light material but not everyone is out to kill the helmeted window it also
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
is thus understandable within the context of a flame consuming the last drops of oil in a lantern or a valve drawing out the contents of the bottom of a cask. Though perhaps not derived directly from this subsiding verb, our modern meaning of fizzle
Video examples
Debate: Does the world...
Then what happens to the waste? The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet. It's just as well, because it can stay where it is.
Video examples
Black Market Demand for...
the endangered helmeted hornbill which is becoming extremely rare in borneo rainforest is the only hornbill species in the world whose cask is composed of ivory light material but not everyone is out to kill the helmeted window it also
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Quote examples
William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
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Jacques Pepin
French Chef
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
It's hard to imagine that shipping over 5,000 truck casks of high-level nuclear waste over 50 years wouldn't result in at least one radiological release somewhere in our country.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
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Johannes Tauler
German Theologian
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
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William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
Quote examples
Jacques Pepin
French Chef
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
It's hard to imagine that shipping over 5,000 truck casks of high-level nuclear waste over 50 years wouldn't result in at least one radiological release somewhere in our country.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
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Johannes Tauler
German Theologian
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
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