cask
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cask/kɑːsk/
▶noun a large barrel-like container for the storage of liquid, especially alcoholic drinks.
– origin C16: from Fr. casque or Sp. casco ‘helmet’.
'cask' also found in these Oxford entries:
barrel
- barricade
- broach
- bunghole
- butt
- cask beer
- cask-conditioned
- chime
- cooper
- croze
- cupola
- cuvette
- draught
- firkin
- flask
- fusty
- hogshead
- kilderkin
- octave
- pin
- pipe
- puncheon
- real ale
- shive
- shook
- spigot
- spile
- stoup
- stum
- tap
- tattoo
- tonneau
- tun
- tunnel
- unwooded
- vent
