Read full poem →In the centre the white-flaked pastry stood,
And beside it the wine flask. Red as blood
Was the wine which should bring the lustihood
Dictionary Entry
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.
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Common Phrases
. flaskcontaining flaskflask volumetricflask erlenmeyerflask smallflask conicalflask distillingflask glass
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Poetry examples for “flask”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And dries its pan yet dank with dew.
And fills its flask with odours new.
Read full poem →Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Read full poem →My heart sank with our Claret-flask,
Just now, beneath the heavy sedges