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Webster 1913 Edition

Flask

Flask

(flăsk or flȧsk)
,
Noun.
[AS.
flasce
,
flaxe
; akin to D.
flesch
, OHG.
flasca
, G.
flasche
, Icel. & Sw.
flaska
, Dan.
flaske
, OF.
flasche
, LL.
flasca
,
flasco
; of uncertain origin; cf. L.
vasculum
, dim. of
vas
a vessel, Gr.
φλάσκη
,
φλάσκων
,
φλάσκιον
. Cf.
Flagon
,
Flasket
.]
1.
A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids;
as, a
flask
of oil or wine
.
2.
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.
3.
A bed in a gun carriage.
[Obs.]
Bailey.
4.
(Founding)
The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Erlenmeyer flask
,
a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; – so called from
Erlenmeyer
, a German chemist who invented it.
–
Florence flask
.
[From
Florence
in Italy.]
(a)
Same as
Betty
,
Noun.
, 3.
(b)
A glass flask, round or pear-shaped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions.
–
Pocket flask
,
a kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.

Webster 1828 Edition

Flask

FL'ASK

, n.
1.
A kind of bottle; as a flask of wine or oil.
2.
A vessel for powder.
3.
A bed in a gun-carriage.

Definition 2024

flask

flask

See also: fläsk

English

Noun

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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Translations

Danish

Verb

flask

  1. 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)

  1. flask

Etymology

From Middle English flask ‎(“cask, keg”), from flaske ‎(“case”), 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).

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): /flɑːsk/
  • enPR: flăsk, IPA(key): /flæsk/
  • Rhymes: -æsk

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