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Casked vs Casket - What's the difference?

casked | casket |

As verbs the difference between casked and casket

is that casked is past tense of cask while casket is to put into, or preserve in, a casket.

As a noun casket is

a little box, e.g. for jewellery.

casked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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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    casket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
  • An urn.
  • A coffin.
  • (nautical) A gasket.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have casketed my treasure.

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