Definition of "water-cask" [water-cask]

• A strong light cask used for transporting drinking-water, especially on sea-going ships. Compare watertank and breaker. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The only things they did not carry with them were the water-cask and a barrel of salted meat, which they left buried in the sand, being determined if they could succeed in manufacturing a canoe within any reasonable distance, they would return to fetch these articles as supplies for their proposed voyage."
• "I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea."
• "One of the natives, who had attempted to steal a water-cask from the watering-place, was caught in the fact, sent on board, and put in irons."