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To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.

To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. [Written also velinche.]

A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent. Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents. Shak. Long't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent. Pope.

A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Dickens.

ne bag, a wine skin. -- Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. -- Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. -- Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. -- Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a s…

One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Totten.