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flask
1[ flask, flahsk ]
noun
- a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
- a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:
a flask of brandy.
- an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kilograms).
- Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.
flask
2[ flask, flahsk ]
noun
- the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.
flask
/ ڱɑː /
noun
- a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
- Also calledhip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
- See powder flask
- a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry
- See vacuum flask
- Also calledcaskcoffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel
flask
/ ڱă /
- A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flask1
Example Sentences
Now she sips Don Julio 70 from a diamond-shaped flask and unapologetically belts her lyrics of resilience to a packed theater.
He used to carry a tiny flask of it in his man purse to dribble onto meals at restaurants.
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.
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.
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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