Synonyms for casks

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kask, kahsk

Phonetic Transcription : kæsk, kɑsk

Définition of casks

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle French casque "cask; helmet," from Spanish casco "skull, cask, helmet," originally "potsherd," from cascar "to break up," from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, frequentative of Latin quassare "to shake, shatter" (see quash). The sense evolution is unclear.

noun rounded container for liquids

Example sentences :

From these ice-fields they filled their casks with water, which was very pure and soft.
Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey

He's enough to turn the very beer in the casks sour with his looks; he is!
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

I am as full of rain-water as my father's casks are of October.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Coqueville had finished the casks and did not dream of going home to dine.
Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola

So then, Friday evening, there were seven casks on the beach!
Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola

The seven casks were placed in a row; each could choose that which he liked best.
Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola

That which enraptured Coqueville was that the casks did not cease.
Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola

Then it was that Delphin slipped into the shadow of the casks.
Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola

You do not know the contents of all those bales and casks, Mr. Wilkinson?
Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty

I might have contrived some arrangement of booms and casks to serve as a raft, but to what purpose?
Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell

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