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Lask vs Flask - What's the difference?

lask | flask |

As nouns the difference between lask and flask

is that lask is diarrhoea (now only of animals) while flask is a narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

lask

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
  • *:A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
  • * 1653 , Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician , Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
    • The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

    flask

    English

    (wikipedia flask)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
  • A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
  • (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
  • (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
  • A bed in a gun carriage.
    • (Bailey)