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How to use cask in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, verb

Cask means a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.). Example: “A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.”

More sentences with cask

  • A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.From the entry dowel
  • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.From the entry tang
  • A cask swells in the middle.From the entry swell
  • Swatted sideways, she flew face-first into a wooden cask at the edge of the well.2010, Allen Williams, The Witches' Kitchen, Little Brown, →ISBN, pages 67-68. From the entry cleaving
  • Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 108. From the entry rack
  • In many breweries the casks are repitched every time before use.1940, Herbert Lloyd Hind, Brewing: science and practice, Volume 2, page 855. From the entry repitch
  • Holland followed suit with a great increase in cask wines and a slight increase in bottled wines.1901, Great Britain Board of Trade, Board of Trade Journal, volume 33, page 660. From the entry cask wine
  • And it must be said that the big company cask wine can be easier to live with the morning after.2006, James Halliday, Wine Atlas of Australia, page 263. From the entry cask wine
  • In the event of misventing the transfer cask, a worker near the cask could receive a dose by inhaling contaminated atmosphere.2004, Proposed Idaho Spent Fuel Facility at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Butte County, Idaho., pages 4-28. From the entry misvent
  • For a gold coin entry fee we could of at least expected some coon and a cask of something nasty!!!2003 July 25, Rossco, “Music”, in aus.hi-fi (Usenet). From the entry gold coin
  • Wooden casks serve a special role in the maturation of lambic by allowing a little oxygen to slowly contact the beer.1990, Jean Guinard, Lambic, Brewers Publications, →ISBN. From the entry lambic
  • “Will you have them bring in the cask?1952, Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice, page 399. From the entry obsonator
  • The original sommeliers were butlers and had to verify the identity of wines, not in labeled bottles as today but in large casks when delivered to their rooms.2014 March 5, Bill St. John, “Learning the master sommelier way”, in Chicago Tribune, section 6, page 3, columns 1–2. From the entry somm
  • Near the memorial were some wine casks and an unopened stubby of beer, whose label was yet to fade, which had been left to slake the thirst of the deceased.2004, Michael McGirr, Bypass: The Story of a Road, Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, page 117. From the entry stubby

Meaning of cask

  1. noun A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.).
  2. noun A casket; a small box for jewels.
  3. noun A brougham or other private carriage.

Full definition of cask

Questions about cask in a sentence

How do you use cask in a sentence?
Cask is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.”
What is a short sentence with cask?
“A cask swells in the middle.”
What does cask mean?
Cask means a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.).

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