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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024flask1 /flæsk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck.
- a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024flask1 (flask, fläsk),USA pronunciation n. - a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used esp. in laboratory experimentation.
- a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:a flask of brandy.
- Metallurgyan iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 lb. (34 kg).
- Metallurgya container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.
- Late Latin flasca, earlier flascō, of uncertain origin, originally; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca (German flasche); compare flagon
- Anglo-French, Old French flaske
- late Middle English: cask, keg 1375–1425
- the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- [Obs.]the bed of a gun carriage.
- Late Latin flasca flask1
- dialect, dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage
- 1570–80
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: flask /flɑːsk/ n - a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
- Also called: hip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
- See powder flask
- See vacuum flask
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French flasque, flaske, from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco, perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe |