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Valinch :: Valinch (n.) A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

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

Casket :: Casket (n.) A gasket. See Gasket.

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads..

Cask :: Cask (n.) The quantity contained in a cask.

Spurt :: Spurt (v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt..

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..

Dolioform :: Dolioform (a.) Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form..

Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..

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..

Stave :: Stave (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc..

Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..

Head :: Head (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask..

Spile :: Spile (v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask..

Heading :: Heading (n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc..

Casket :: Casket (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteeme.

Casket :: Casket (n.) The tomb.

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