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Howel :: Howel (v. t.) To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Cask :: Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel..

Keg :: Keg (n.) A small cask or barrel.

Tang :: Tang (n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask..

Dowel :: Dowel (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask..

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..

Bung :: Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

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

Tun :: Tun (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask..

Bung :: Bung (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

Howel :: Howel (n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks..

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

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

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

Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour..

Rider :: Rider (n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

Casket :: Casket (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket..

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

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