flask
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flask/flɑːsk/
▶noun
- 1 a narrow-necked conical or spherical glass container.
- 2 Brit. a vacuum flask.
- 3 a hip flask.
- 4 a lead-lined container for radioactive nuclear waste.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘cask’): from med. L. flasca.
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