casks
Meaning of casks
plural noun
- a large container like a barrel, made of wood, metal or plastic and used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.
the wine is stored in oak casks
early 16th century: 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 (compare with casque).
Information about casks
- It is a name.
- The singular form of casks is: cask.
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Hyphenation of casks
casks
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- casks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
casks synonyms
Meaning a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them:
Meaning a small barrel, especially one of less than 10 gallons or (in the US) 30 gallons:
Meaning a push or blow, especially one given with the head:
Meaning a large beer or wine cask:
Meaning a large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry:
Meaning a percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends:
Meaning a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas:
Meaning a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask:
Meaning a large cask:
Meaning a small cask formerly used for liquids, butter, or fish:
Meaning a cask for liquids or other substances, holding 16 or 18 gallons:
Meaning a tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances:
Meaning a thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used for fastening pieces of cloth, paper, etc:
Meaning a short post, especially one used for supporting the roof in a coal mine:
Meaning another term for terce:
Anagrams of casks
Words that rhyme with casks
asks, basks, hasks, flasks, antimasks, bergamasks, bergomasks, damasks, dismasks, facemasks, immasks, masks, photomasks, unmasks, attasks, multitasks, outasks, outtasks, overtasks, subtasks, tasks
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