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1. anker, n. View full entry 1597
...A measure of wine and spirits, used in Holland, North Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. It varies in different countries; that of Rotterdam, formerly also used in England, contains 10 old wine...
2. bareca | bareka, n. View full entry 1773
...A small cask or keg, a breaker...
3. barrel, n. View full entry c1300
...A cylindrical wooden vessel, generally bulging in the middle and of greater length than breadth, formed of curved staves bound together by hoops, and having flat ends or heads; a cask....
4. † ˈbarrelet, n. View full entry 1611
...A little barrel or cask....
5. barrico, n. View full entry 1607
...A keg, a small cask or barrel....
6. † ˈbarriket, n. View full entry 1611
...A small cask, a firkin....
7. bilge, n. View full entry a1522
...The bottom of a ship's hull, or that part on either side of the keel which has more a horizontal than a perpendicular direction, and upon which the ship would rest if...
8. blubber, n.1 View full entry c1400
...The foaming or boiling of the sea. Obs....
9. † boss, n.3 View full entry c1375
...A cask; esp. a small cask; a leathern butt or bottle for wine, etc....
10. † boˈtozio, n. View full entry 1622
...? = Italian bottaccio cask....
11. † bouge, n.1 View full entry 1387
...A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle; = bulge1. Obs....
12. breaker, n.2 View full entry 1834
...A small keg or cask....
13. bung, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled....
14. butt, n.2 View full entry 1423
...A cask for wine or ale, of capacity varying from 108 to 140 gallons. (Earlier the size was app. much smaller; see quot. 1443; cf. also 1462 in...
15. cade, n.1 View full entry 1337
...A cask or barrel....
16. † cag, n.1 View full entry 1452
...A small cask, a keg ? Obs....
17. cant, n.1 View full entry c1375
...(probably) Edge, border, brink. Obs....
18. cantle, n. View full entry c1315
...A nook or corner; a corner-piece. Obs....
19. † cap, n.2 View full entry 1519
...A closed wooden vessel; a cask....
20. cardel, n. View full entry 1694
...A hogshead containing in 17th c. 64 gallons, used in the Dutch whaling trade....
