cask
/kæsk/ noun C1- A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
Plural casks
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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.
“Baptistin,” said the count, “have the other fish brought in—the sterlet and the lamprey which came in the other casks, and which are yet alive.”
Four servants carried in two casks covered with aquatic plants, and in each of which was breathing a fish similar to those on the table.
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