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metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

e would not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

A small cask or barrel.

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.

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

An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

That which settles at the bottom, as, of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." Holland. A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Sha…

A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.

A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. -- Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.…

A perforated cask for draining sugar. Knight.

The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining. [West Indies] B. Edwards.

The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.

ic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.

A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.