flask

flask has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A bed in a gun carriage.
• n.. 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.
• n.. bottle that has a narrow neck
• n.. the quantity a flask will hold