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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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