Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

cask

UK/kɑːsk/US/kæsk/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,631 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: casks

A cask is a wooden barrel, especially for beer or wine. A cask of ale, cask-aged, tap the cask.

Cask ale in Britain is a legally distinct thing: beer that finishes fermenting in the cask and is served without added gas, which is why it must be drunk within days of opening. In whisky the cask is where nearly all the flavour comes from.

Gerard Prins · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of cask

  1. 1nouncaskA wooden barrel, especially for beer or wine.B2+

    “The wine is aged in oak casks for two years before it is bottled.”

cask is a barrel.

Where it comes from

Middle French casque names the container, a doublet of casque, a helmet.

  1. Middle French

    casque

  2. English, today

    cask

From Middle French casque. a doublet of casco and casque.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Containers & Packaging

Practise this word

cask in the wild

  • Draught beer, also spelt draft, is beer served from a cask or keg rather than from a bottle or can.

    Draught beer

  • There are various dry storage cask system designs.

    Dry cask storage

  • Some of the cask designs can be used for both storage and transportation.

    Dry cask storage

  • Boxed wine, also known as cask wine, bag-in-box wine, or goon, is any wine that is sold in bag-in-box packaging.

    Box wine

  • The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; a small barrel or cask is known as a keg.

    Barrel

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • casket