Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong tight cask, made for holding wine for ripening or transportation.
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Examples
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I brined it only overnight and smoked it with mesquite and wine-cask oak in a weber smoker (borrowed).
Smokin' Meat! 2009
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I love the flavor of mesquite, and boy, wine-cask oak is treat!
Smokin' Meat! 2009
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I love the flavor of mesquite, and boy, wine-cask oak is treat!
Smokin' Meat! 2009
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I brined it only overnight and smoked it with mesquite and wine-cask oak in a weber smoker (borrowed).
Smokin' Meat! 2009
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Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the mightiest ale, the richest morat, the most sparkling cider, the most odoriferous pigments, upon the board; fill the largest horns12 — Templars and Abbots love good wines and good measure. —
Ivanhoe 2004
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One hid himself beneath the hay, another under the roof, a third in the straw, the fourth in the stove, the fifth in the cellar, the sixth under a tub, the seventh beneath the wine-cask, the eighth under an old fur cloak, the ninth and tenth beneath the cloth out of which she always made their clothes, and the eleventh and twelfth under the leather out of which she cut their shoes.
Household Tales 2003
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Failing to find either my kinsman or a remunerative school, I entered into partnership with a young man from Memphis named George Davis, for the purpose of getting out wine-cask staves, to be shipped to New
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As there was no corner of the cosmos unfilled by body, space, it will be seen, was another name for the All. Place was compared to a vessel that was full, void to one that was empty, and space to the vast wine-cask, such as that in which Diogenes made his home, which was kept partly fully, but in which there was always room for more.
Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock
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This instrument had the appearance of a big wine-cask and yet a street-organ at the same time, and was an invention of the ingenious inn-keeper.
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Notwithstanding this, however, when we reflect upon the scanty compensation afforded the benefactor of the rising generation, we can not severely blame his penurious tenacity any more than we can censure an empty wine-cask for not giving forth the nectar which we have never poured into it.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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