Box and Cask

Box

Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.

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Cask and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cask" instead a noun "Box".

Nearby Word: boxed

Cask noun - An enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages.

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Box and cask are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Cask".

Nearby Word: casket

empty	empty box	empty cask
large	large box	large cask
little	little box	little cask
titular	titular box	titular cask
Other adjectives: last, literal.

Supposedly there was once a job in the British Royal Navy called "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles" as captains sometimes use sea bottles to carry secret messages back to shore or stuff their log books into a empty cask to serve as a "black box" of sorts.

Source: Message in a Bottle

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