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Casked vs Cataract - What's the difference?

casked | cataract |

As a verb casked

is (cask).

As a noun cataract is

(obsolete) a waterspout.

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

    * *

    cataract

    English

    (wikipedia cataract)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A waterspout
  • A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
    • ''The cataracts on the Nile helped compartiment Upper Egypt
  • A flood of water (rfex)
  • An overwhelming downpour or rush
    • ''His cataract of eloquence
  • (pathology) A disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1999 , author=J J Gallo, J Busby-Whitehead, W Reichel, P V Rabins, R A Silliman , title=Reichel's care of the elderly , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=563 , passage=Rarely, a dense, swollen neglected cataract precipitates an angle-closure glaucoma.}}

    Derived terms

    * cataractal