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casks

NOUN
rounded container for liquids
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Spent nuclear fuel is stored in lead and stainless steel casks and bolted into concrete at a specially built pad at Diablo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

If you let him, Alasdair Day, the co-founder and master distiller, will speak at length about oak species and cask types—I particularly enjoyed a limited release aged in Sicilian Marsala wine casks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Yet the investors discovered that many of the casks they had bought, had either been heavily overpriced – up to five times in some cases – or didn't exist at all.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

In the next, casks of salt beef, salt pork, salt mutton, and salt cod were stacked ten feet high.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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