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Definition of Casks
1. cask [v] - See also: cask
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casks
Literary usage of Casks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"Such is the mode by which the casks are secured or released from the machine—
that is, by turning in one direction the casks are effectually secured between ..."
2. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"hogsheads, and - casks of ale, to the said defendant, and did then and there send
and deliver the same to the said defendant in divers. to wit, - hogsheads, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"named in the Indictment fell accidentally from the casks and were not removed by
any person was properly overruled. " Sixth. Whether or not it was error to ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"The only reason for sending men in ships is, that they may be observers to make
a daily record of events But for this, I say, a hundred casks, ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1883)
"Delaware: Size of casks for exportation of breadstuffs. ... New Jersey: Revision
1877; beef and pork barrels, flour and meal casks, Id. 437; herring casks, ..."
6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1904)
"... to Pay for Flour casks. (Answered in Person.) Poughkeepsie 21 August 1781.
Sir, Having assured the Financier General there was a great probability of my ..."
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