flask

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”).

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fläsk, IPA^(key): /ˈflɑːsk/
• (General American) enPR: flăsk, IPA^(key): /ˈflæsk/

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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 *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Reinforced by existing Old English flasce, from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflask(ə)/

flask (plural flaskes) (rare)

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

• flasket

• English: flask
• Scots: flask, flas

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

• flēsk

From Proto-West Germanic *flaiski. Cognates include Old English flǣsċ and Old Saxon flēsk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaːsk/

flāsk n

1. flesh

• North Frisian:

  Mooring: flååsch

• Saterland Frisian: Flaask
• West Frisian: fleis

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28