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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..

Backsword :: Backsword (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick..

Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.

Gascoines :: Gascoines (n. pl.) See Gaskins, 1..

Round :: Round (n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated..

Fascet :: Fascet (n.) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty..

Wisket :: Wisket (n.) A whisket, or basket..

Masquerade :: Masquerade (n.) An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions..

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..

Asker :: Asker (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.

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

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

Leer :: Leer (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look..

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

Chock :: Chock (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it..

Blench :: Blench (n.) A looking aside or askance.

Masker :: Masker (n.) One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.

Grate :: Grate (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning..

Beggar :: Beggar (n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner..

Cabas :: Cabas (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba..

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