Definition of "cask"

cask

/kɑːsk/

noun
plural casks
1. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
2. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  Quotations
  A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii], line 409
3. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).
verb
third-person singular simple present casks, present participle casking, simple past and past participle casked
1. To put into a cask.