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pocket-flask

pocket-flask is the alternative spelling of pocket flask.

Meaning of pocket flask

Noun

pocket flask (plural pocket flasks)

  1. (dated) A flat metal container for alcoholic beverages, with a narrow neck suitable for use as a drinking spout, designed to fit into a man's pocket and popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
    • The traveller had been at the pains of going a long way up stairs to his sleeping-room, to fetch his pocket-flask of brandy.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Fellow Travellers”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 2nd book (Riches), page 334

Forms of pocket-flask

pluralpocket-flasks

Questions about pocket-flask

What is pocket-flask the alternative spelling of?
Pocket-flask is the alternative spelling of pocket flask.

Words near pocket-flask in the dictionary

  1. pocket-called
  2. pocket-calling
  3. pocket-calls
  4. pocket-dial
  5. pocket-dials
  6. pocket-flask
  7. pocket-flasks
  8. pocket-handkerchief
  9. pocket-handkerchiefs
  10. pocket-handkerchieves
  11. pocket-hole

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