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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..

Cooper :: Cooper (n.) One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons..

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..

Leak :: Leak (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks..

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

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle..

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

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

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..

Cade :: Cade (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish..

Atilt :: Atilt (adv.) In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.].

Cask :: Cask (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.

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

Ullage :: Ullage (n.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency..

Octave :: Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe..

Winger :: Winger (n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships..

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..

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..

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