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  • noun Plural form of pocket-flask.

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Examples

  • From time to time a lull in the storm would occur, and then peals of laughter would come across the intervening waters; and looking up, the irritated sportsmen generally beheld a tableau of inverted pocket-flasks, and feats of strength with a rapidly lightening ale-keg.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields

  • Four or five privates lay here fast asleep, and the bar-room was occupied by a bevy of young officers, who were emptying the contents of sundry pocket-flasks.

    Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

  • Six fine dressing-cases arrived, and were hung upon the walls; four smelling-bottles -- one for each nostril; bed-socks, rigolettes, afghans, lunch-baskets, pocket-flasks, guide-books, needle-cases, bouquets in stacks, and a great cake with their names on top in red and blue letters three inches long.

    Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag

  • Master Thief set off to a shop, and bought brandy enough to fill two pocket-flasks, and into one of them he put a sleepy drink, but into the other only brandy.

    Popular Tales from the Norse

  • They transgressed, without fear or scruple, the rules of behavior that were binding on all others; smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing, at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket-flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.

    The Scarlet Letter

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