cask

• The unhappy creature was placed in a cask, and, as I have said before, headed up therein, an aperture being cut in the two halves of the head just sufficient to admit his neck; and the cask was then slung by a whip from the main-yard-arm, and secured by a toggle, the withdrawal of which at the right moment, by means of a lanyard, enabled the cask to be dropped gently, right end up, in the water, where it floated, with its inmate a helpless prisoner, to be picked up or not as the case might be. —  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
• Do not think that my incarnated brandy-cask was the only one of the party who did unto others as he would they should do unto him, for the entire band were officiously tendering to one another the same good-Samaritan-like assistance. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• Several bits of iron were lashed to the lower end of the cask, to make it sink upright; and the cask was steadily lowered into a boat lying alongside the ship, in readiness for use The sailors entered into the preparations with the glee of schoolboys; but the machine was not ready until long after the ship had been towed out again through the channel, and moored broadside to it, just outside Chapter 8: The Torpedo It was about two o'clock in the morning when the watch awoke the crew, with the news that they could hear the distant sound of oars coming along the shore.
• Then he pressed the bung firmly into the top of the tube, the lashings of the cask were cut, and the boat rowed back to the ship.
• It lay under the shadow of a beer-cask--the servants' beer--a fresh cask--which, having arrived late that evening, had not been relegated to the cellar. —  My Doggie and I

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