cask

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sturdy cylindrical container for storing liquids; a barrel.
2. n. The quantity that such a container can hold.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A close, water-tight vessel formed like a barrel with staves, headings, and hoops, and used for containing liquids or substances which may become liquid: a generic term comprehending the pipe, hogshead, butt, barrel, etc.
2. n. An irregular measure of capacity. A cask of almonds is 3 hundred weight; a cask of cloves, etc., 300 pounds; a cask of pilchards, 50 gallons. The name is also applied to various foreign measures of capacity, as the Russian bochka, the Polish beczka, etc.
3. n. In dyeing, an apparatus for steaming and thus fixing the colors of cloths which are printed with a mixture of dyestuffs and mordants. It consists of a hollow cylinder, within which the cloth is suspended, the steam being admitted to the interior of the drum.
4. n. A helmet. [In this sense now usually spelled casque (which see).]
5. To put into a cask.
6. To provide with or put on a casque or helmet.
7. n. A casket; a case or shell.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
2. v. To put into a cask.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Same as casque.
2. n. A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
3. n. The quantity contained in a cask.
4. n. obsolete A casket; a small box for jewels.
5. v. To put into a cask.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the quantity a cask will hold
2. n. a cylindrical container that holds liquids