Definitions for flask

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flask flask

Spelling: [flask, flahsk]

IPA: /flæsk, flɑsk/

Flask is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in flask (afkls).

Definitions for flask

noun

1. a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
2. a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:
3. an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kg).
4. Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.
5. the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
6. Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.

Origin of flask

1375-1425; late Middle English: cask, keg Anglo-French, Old French flaske Late Latin flasca, earlier flascō, of uncertain origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca (Ge

Examples for flask

The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket.

Crawford, taking swigs from a flask of vodka, caused a stir on several evenings by focusing her attentions upon Richardson.

That date is etched onto a flask he gave me to store last minute, to be given back in the states once we were home.

"We are glad to see thee, brother," said he, holding out the flask of Malmsey.

This flask does not contain fly-dope--that's in the other flask--it contains whisky.

"And bring with him a flask of holy water," added the knight of Bohemia.

Some of them could drink from the flask, which made our work shorter.

Where will we find the “flask of oil” of the new Yom Yerushalayim story?

Madison, who sat at the front of the room hiding his flask, was just the beginning.

I shall go down into the cellars and bring a flask of the best.'