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Cask vs Puncheon - What's the difference?

cask | puncheon |

As nouns the difference between cask and puncheon

is that cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks while puncheon is a figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

As a verb cask

is to put into a cask.

cask

English

(wikipedia cask)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
  • (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
  • A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

    Derived terms

    * cask beer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a cask.
  • Anagrams

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    puncheon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * punchion

    Noun

    (puncheons)
  • A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
  • A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
  • A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 7:
  • he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].
  • A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
  • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion , and dropped it in a baking-tin.