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cask

/kask, kahsk/US // kæsk, kɑsk //UK // (kɑːsk) //

罐子,木桶,罐头,桶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
    • : the quantity such a container holds: wine at 32 guineas a cask.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place or store in a cask.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He uses traditional ex-bourbon casks to age the flagship Puni Gold and ex-Pedro Ximénez sherry barrels to make Sole.

  • The resulting product included four single-cask variants along with finished pictures of McKidd enjoying a glass of The Macallan.

  • A bottle of The Glenlivet, aged in the cask longer than Poppet and Buster put together.

  • I learned that day of a process called “dry cask storage” that seems to offer a safer alternative.

  • Age whiskey in a sherry cask and it takes on flavor from the wood.

  • Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.

  • Near the stream we found some felled trees and the staves of a cask.

  • At this point he lost his balance, and went rolling to leeward like an empty cask.

  • I could see that a powerful effort was needed to keep him off the vexed question of the cask of beer, but he made it.

  • No rattle responded; but the despairing fact became apparent: the cask was empty!