| 单词 | cask |
| 释义 | cask (once / 935 pages) n A barrel-shaped container that holds wine or other, usually alcoholic, beverages is called a cask. If you visit a winery, you will often see many rows of wooden wine-filled casks lining the caves and cellars of the winery. If you have a large party, you can open a cask of wine. Experts aren't exactly sure what the origin of the word cask is. They know that it is a noun that comes from the Middle French word casque or the Spanish word casco, and both mean "helmet," but how we got from helmet to wine-filled barrel-shaped container is unclear. Students may have heard of the word cask from Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story of revenge and murder set in a wine cellar, "The Cask of Amontillado." WORD FAMILYcask: caskful, casks+/caskful: caskfuls USAGE EXAMPLESLagavulin is launching a single cask edition of 522 bottles of its single malt to raise funds for local projects. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) A traditional Scottish beer, served on cask, 5,000 miles from Edinburgh? Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) Mr. Akuto, though, acquired the 400 casks in inventory and started his own company, Venture Whisky. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1n a cylindrical container that holds liquids Syn|Hypo|Hyper barrel beer barrel, beer keg a barrel that holds beer butta large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) hogsheada large cask especially one holding 63 gals kegsmall cask or barrel pickle barrela barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled shooka disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment tuna large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals wine barrel, wine caska barrel that holds wine firkina small wooden keg powder kegkeg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder water butta butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater vessel an object used as a container (especially for liquids) 2n the quantity a cask will hold Syn|Hyper caskful containerful the quantity that a container will hold |
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