A cask to contain water; † in 17th c. collectively. On board ship, the common receptacle of drinking-water.
1613. J. Saris, Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.), 31. The Coopers provided themselues of rotans for water caske, which make excellen hoopes.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. I. 152. I received an order from Captain — to … put all my Cargo into her; as also all my Water-cask.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 86. We had filled our water-casks and taken in what fresh provisions we could get.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, xi. I … ran to the water-cask.
1862. G. T. Lloyd, 33 Yrs. in Tasmania, i. 3. We arrived at Bona Vista, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, in order to replenish our odoriferous water-casks and exhausted hen-coops.
