cask

noun
/kɑːsk/UK/kæsk/US

Etymology

From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.

  1. derived from casque

Definitions

  1. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram…

    A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)

  2. A casket

    A casket; a small box for jewels.

    • A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.
  3. A brougham or other private carriage.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

    2. To put into a cask.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cask. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cask. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cask

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA