cask
noun /kɑːsk/
/kæsk/
- a small wooden barrel used for storing liquids, especially alcoholic drinks; the amount contained in a cask
小木桶；酒桶；一桶（的量） - a wine cask/a cask of wine
酒桶；一桶酒
- a cask of beer
一桶啤酒 - beer brewed in casks
木桶酿造的啤酒 - The whisky is matured in oak casks for three years.
威士忌在橡木桶中陈酿三年。
Collocations DictionaryCask is used before these nouns:- beer
词源early 16th cent.: from French casque or Spanish casco ‘helmet’. The current senses appear only in English; from the late 16th to the late 18th centuries the word also denoted a helmet. - a wine cask/a cask of wine