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Incask :: Incask (v. t.) To cover with a casque or as with a casque.

Tip :: Tip (v. t.) To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart..

Croze :: Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself..

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks..

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

Reliquary :: Reliquary (n.) A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept..

Casket :: Casket (n.) A book of selections.

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form..

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Tickler :: Tickler (n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..

Argol :: Argol (n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc..

Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..

Cork :: Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork..

Butt :: Butt (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

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