cask

However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says.

"Oodles and oodles of it, my gentlemen, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand."

And as the carter went on with the other two horses, she again crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked out the bung of the second cask, so that all the wine ran out.

I cannot throw the loop through this partition nor move with a pack-thread a cask of wine which may perhaps weigh two hundred pounds."

They gave the two of them some wine out of a cask, to try, asking their opinion as to the condition, quality, goodness or badness of the wine.

They composed one of the boats' crews, and their task was to ply between the schooner and the shore, carrying a single cask each trip.

Behind the sleeper stands an old cask, which serves for a table.

The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and what tenfold increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner.

Each fish was brought over in a cask -- one filled with river herbs and weeds, the other with rushes and lake plants; they were placed in a wagon built on purpose, and thus the sterlet lived twelve days, the lamprey eight, and both were alive when my cook seized them, killing one with milk and the other with wine.

A lashed boat, a spare spar, a cask or what not secured about the decks, is "cast adrift" when it is untied.

The gold contained in these two casks before us, I have told you was mine.

Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party.