casks

Meaning of casks

plural noun
  1. 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:

barrel

Meaning a small barrel, especially one of less than 10 gallons or (in the US) 30 gallons:

keg

Meaning a push or blow, especially one given with the head:

butt

Meaning a large beer or wine cask:

tun

Meaning a large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry:

vat

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:

drum

Meaning a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas:

tank

Meaning a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask:

vessel

Meaning a large cask:

hogshead

Meaning a small cask formerly used for liquids, butter, or fish:

firkin

Meaning a cask for liquids or other substances, holding 16 or 18 gallons:

kilderkin

Meaning a tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances:

pipe

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:

pin

Meaning a short post, especially one used for supporting the roof in a coal mine:

puncheon

Meaning another term for terce:

tierce

Anagrams of casks

Sacks, sacks

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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