different between casked vs casket

English

casked

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask +? -et. Doublet of cassette.

casket (plural caskets)

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
  They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
(Britain) An urn.
(Canada, US) A coffin.
(nautical) A gasket.

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

(poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]
  I have […] casketed my treasure.

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