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flask

1

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

  1. a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
  2. a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:

    a flask of brandy.

  3. an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kilograms).
  4. Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.


flask

2

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

Ordnance.
  1. the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
  2. Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.

flask

/ ڱɑː /

noun

  1. a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
  2. Also calledhip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
  3. a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry
  4. Also calledcaskcoffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

flask

/ ڱă /

  1. A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of flask1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English: “cask, keg,” from Anglo-French, Old French flaske, Late Latin flasca, earlier ڱō, of uncertain origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca ( German flasche ); flagon

Origin of flask2

1570–80; < dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage < Late Latin flasca flask 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of flask1

C14: from Old French flasque, flaske , from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco , perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe
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Now she sips Don Julio 70 from a diamond-shaped flask and unapologetically belts her lyrics of resilience to a packed theater.

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He used to carry a tiny flask of it in his man purse to dribble onto meals at restaurants.

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On a Friday night in September 1971, a group of men, clutching sandwiches and flasks of tea, made their way into SAC, a leather goods shop on Baker Street.

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You had a glass syringe with a steel needle that you sent away to get sharpened and you had to boil them up on the stove, and keep them in a flask.

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This was when Hill said she hit her victim with a flask and then, when the 90-year-old continued to shout, smothered her.

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