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Cask
- noun - a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- the quantity a cask will hold
Cawk
- - An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
Cock
- noun - adult male bird
- adult male chicken
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's head"
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
Conk
- noun - come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
- hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted"
- informal term for the nose
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
Cook
- noun - English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
- prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
- prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- someone who cooks food
- tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
- transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
Cork
- noun - (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- a port city in southern Ireland
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- close a bottle with a cork
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
Cusk
- noun - elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
- the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters
Dank
- adjective - unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
Dark
- adjective - (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
- absence of light or illumination
- absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
- an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
- an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
- causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
- having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned