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

Chimb :: Chimb (n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3..

Firkin :: Firkin (n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc..

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..

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

Dunnage :: Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion..

Unsling :: Unsling (v. t.) To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings..

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

Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..

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

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

Prizing :: Prizing (n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5..

Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.

Cask :: Cask (n.) Same as Casque.

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

Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask..

Coop :: Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

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..

Stale :: Stalder (n.) A wooden frame to set casks on.

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