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Look up: cask

  1. Cask
    A thick-walled container (usually lead) used to transport radioactive material. Also called a coffin.
    Found on http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

  2. cask
    [n] - the quantity a cask will hold
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Cask
    A closed, barrel-shaped container for beer. They come in various sizes and are now usually made of metal. The bung in a cask of 'real' beer or ale must be made of wood to allow the pressure to be released, as the fermentation of the beer, in the cask, continues.
    Found on http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/brew

  4. cask
    container made of wooden staves and having the shape of two truncated cones joined at their bases Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • A special,strong,hermetically sealed container shielded with lead for the purpose of storing or transporting radioac...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Cask
    Cask noun [ Spanish casco potsherd, skull, helmet, probably from cascar to break, from Latin Quassure to break. Confer Casque , Cass .] 1. Same as Casque . [ Obsolete] 2. A barrel-shaped vesse...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/32

  6. Cask
    Cask transitive verb To put into a cask.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/32

  7. cask
    caskful noun the quantity a cask will hold
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Cask
    • (v. t.) To put into a 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. • (n.) Same as Casque. • (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels. • (n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. Cask
    A cask was a British unit of measurement of arsenic equivalent to about 4 hundred weight, in use during the 19th century.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. Cask
    Any wooden container used for wine aging or storage. The term includes barrels, puncheons, butts, pipes, etc.
    Found on http://www.edenwines.co.uk/Glossary_c.ht

  11. Cask
    A generic term for containers of varying capacity in which spirit is stored during maturation.
    Found on http://www.whisky-pages.com/about.shtml

  12. Cask
    The barrel in which whisk(e)y is matured. By law, casks must be made from oak.
    Found on http://www.masterofmalt.com/whisky-gloss

  13. Cask
    A container for beer that is sealed. They can be wood or metal.
    Found on http://www.brew-monkey.com/brewschool/gl

  14. Cask
    Wooden barrel used to store whisky. Whisky is stored in oak casks and aged to soften the whisky. The process of aging is complex but can be described simply as taking bad things out of the whisky and putting good things in. Casks for whisky have generally been used previously to store other alcoholi...
    Found on http://www.sohowhisky.com/whisky_glossar

  15. CASK
    `Peripheral plasma membrane protein CASK` is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CASK gene.<ref name="pmid9722958">-->--> This gene is also known by several other names: CMG 2 (CAMGUK protein 2), calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase 3 and membrane-associated ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASK



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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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