Cask [noun]

Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.

Near the stream we found some felled trees and the staves of a cask.

At this point he lost his balance, and went rolling to leeward like an empty cask.

I could see that a powerful effort was needed to keep him off the vexed question of the cask of beer, but he made it.

No rattle responded; but the despairing fact became apparent: the cask was empty!

As Clifford stood frozen with horror, the slimy monster rose from out the cask, still sounding its angry alarm.

From the use of a similar instrument to tap casks, comes "to broach" or "tap" a cask.

"I suggest that the gentlemen place their ammunition and loading tools upon the head of the cask at my right," said the judge.

Then came the pitch-pine staves of a rice-cask; then a bedstead, a broken chair, a wooden flowerpot!

Upon this her mistress gave her a little wooden cask and ordered her to go back immediately and fill it at the fountain.