cask
noun/kɑːsk/
/kæsk/
- a small wooden barrel used for storing liquids, especially alcoholic drinks; the amount contained in a cask
- a wine cask/a cask of wine
Extra Examples- a cask of beer
- beer brewed in casks
- The whisky is matured in oak casks for three years.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCask is used before these nouns:- beer
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French casque or Spanish casco ‘helmet’. The current senses appear only in English; from the late 16th to the late 18th centuries the word also denoted a helmet.Definitions on the go
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