Definition of "cask" []

• A sturdy cylindrical container for storing liquids; a barrel. (noun)
• The quantity that such a container can hold. (noun)

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• "The wines were exported in cask and bottled and cellared there."
• "In fact, cask is under-represented in the north, largely because "northern" brands such as John Smith's and Boddingtons are in decline."
• ""Oodles and oodles of it, gold and gold and better than gold, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand," the"