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1. anker, n. View full entry ?c1750

...A cask or keg holding the above quantity....

2. bareca | bareka, n. View full entry 1773

...A small cask or keg, a breaker...

3. barrel, n. View full entry c1305

...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. barrel, n. View full entry 1753

...With various substantives defining its specific use, as beer-barrel, brandy-barrel, fire-barrel, herring-barrel, sugar-barrel, tar-barrel, thunder-barrel, treacle-barrel....

7. barrel-head in barrel, n. View full entry 1841

...(either) flat end of a barrel....

8. † ˈbarrelet, n. View full entry 1611

...A little barrel or cask....

9. barrico, n. View full entry 1607

...A keg, a small cask or barrel....

10. † ˈbarriket, n. View full entry 1611

...A small cask, a firkin....

11. bilge, n. View full entry 1553

...The ‘belly’ of a cask or other vessel of similar shape; cf. belly1011....

12. blubber, n.1 View full entry 1820

...Comb. and attrib. (chiefly in sense 4), as blubber-boat, blubber-cask, blubber-chopper, blubber-fork, blubber-hook, blubber-knife, ...

13. † boss, n.3 View full entry c1375

...A cask; esp. a small cask; a leathern butt or bottle for wine, etc....

14. † boˈtozio, n. View full entry 1622

...? = Italian bottaccio cask....

15. † bouge, n.1 View full entry 1736

...The protuberant part of a cask; = bilge2....

16. breaker, n.2 View full entry 1834

...A small keg or cask....

17. bung-stave in bung, n.1 View full entry 1860

...that stave of a cask in which is the bung-hole....

18. butt, n.2 View full entry 1626

...In wider sense: A cask, barrel....

20. cade, n.1 View full entry 1387

...A cask or barrel....

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