William Falconer

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Scottish Poet

Jacques Pepin

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

French Chef

Jacky Rosen

It's hard to imagine that shipping over 5,000 truck casks of high-level nuclear waste over 50 years wouldn't result in at least one radiological release somewhere in our country.

American Politician

Hesiod

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Greek Poet

Johannes Tauler

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

German Theologian

Cask implies storage, often for aging drinks like wine or whiskey to improve flavor over time.

Storage Container

Casks can be made from different materials, which may affect the taste of its contents.

Material Matters

Casks are mostly associated with alcoholic beverages, not other types of liquids.

Associated Drinks

When cask is used as a unit, it specifically refers to a quantity, traditionally for wine.

Volume Unit

Cask as a unit is less common today and often used in traditional or historical contexts.

Historical Measurement

Use cask as a unit when precise quantities are discussed in certain industries, like winemaking.

Technical Specificity

 is thus understandable within the context of a flame consuming the last drops of oil in a lantern or a valve drawing out the contents of the bottom of a cask. Though perhaps not derived directly from this subsiding verb, our modern meaning of fizzle

Mysteries of vernacular:...

 Then what happens to the waste? The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet. It's just as well, because it can stay where it is.

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