Search the Dictionary

A small water cask. Totten.

To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak.

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

the motion of the waves. -- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. -- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, unt…

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; Hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba. C. Bronté.

A barrel or cask, as of fish. "A cade of herrings." Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. Jacob, Law Dict.

The catcher's wire mask.

od or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

bacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

A small basket of rushes, or wilow twigs, etc.

A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. Knight.

family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]

The basket, box, or cage suspended from a ballon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.

A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. -- Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.