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lask
English
Etymology
From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??sk/, /læsk/
- Rhymes: -æsk
Noun
lask (plural lasks)
- 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 […].
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
Anagrams
- Salk, alks
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) laskõ
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.
Verb
lask
- let
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flask
English
Etymology
From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flasc? (“bottle”); from Frankish *flasko, *flaska; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flask? (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche), from Proto-Indo-European *plo?-sk? (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókš?ias, 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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fläsk, IPA(key): /fl??sk/
- enPR: fl?sk, IPA(key): /flæsk/
- Rhymes: -æsk
Noun
flask (plural flasks)
- 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.
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Translations
Verb
flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)
- (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
Anagrams
- falks, flaks
Danish
Verb
flask
- imperative of flaske
Dutch
Etymology
From French flasque (“flask”). Doublette with (native) fles (“bottle”), (through French) flacon (“flagon”) and (through Italian) fiasco (“fiasco”).
Noun
flask f (plural flasken, diminutive flaskje n)
- flask
Middle English
Alternative forms
- flaske
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flask?. Also reinforced by existing Old English flasce, also from Proto-Germanic *flask?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flask(?)/
Noun
flask (plural flaskes)
- (rare) A small barrel for beer storage.
- (rare) A container for the storage of garments.
Descendants
- English: flask
- Scots: flask, flas
References
- “flask, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- fl?sk
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *flaiski. Cognates include Old English fl?s? and Old Saxon fl?sk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fla?sk/
Noun
fl?sk n
- flesh
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- Mooring: flååsch
- Saterland Frisian: Flaask
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
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