a small wooden barrel used for storing liquids, especially alcoholic drinks; the amount contained in a cask 小木桶;酒桶;一桶(的量) a wine cask/a cask of wine 酒桶;一桶酒
Extra Examplesa cask of beer 一桶啤酒 beer brewed in casks 木桶酿造的啤酒 The whisky is matured in oak casks for three years. 威士忌在橡木桶中陈酿三年。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCask is used before these nouns:- beer
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French casque or Spanish casco ‘helmet’. The current senses appear only in English; from the late 16th to the late 18th centuries the word also denoted a helmet.