flask

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Anglo-Norman flascon, from Late Latin flascō (“bottle”), from Frankish *flasko, *flaska (whence also Dutch fles), from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also Old English flaxe, flasce, German Flasche), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët).

Sense 2 from Italian fiasco and sense 3 from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.

• enPR: fläsk, IPA^(key): /flɑːsk/
• enPR: flăsk, IPA^(key): /flæsk/

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• Rhymes: -æsk

flask (plural flasks)

1. 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.
2. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
3. (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.
4. (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
5. A bed in a gun carriage.

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flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)

1. (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

• falks, flaks

flask

1. imperative of flaske

From French flasque (“flask”). Doublette with (native) fles (“bottle”), (through French) flacon (“flagon”) and (through Italian) fiasco (“fiasco”).

flask f (plural flasken, diminutive flaskje n)

1. flask

• flaske

From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Also reinforced by existing Old English flasce, also from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflask(ə)/

flask (plural flaskes)

1. (rare) A small barrel for beer storage.
2. (rare) A container for the storage of garments.

• English: flask
• Scots: flask, flas

• “flask (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.