fust

Meaning

cask (e.g. containing beer)

Concepts

barrel

cask

drum

🥁

keg

Synonyms

ton

vat

affuit

tonnetje

vaatje

okshoofd

Etymology

From earlier fuste (“type of wine barrel”), from Middle Dutch fuust (“barrel”), borrowed from Old French fust (“wine barrel, piece of wood”), from Latin fusta, fustum (“block of wood, barrel”), from earlier fustis (“cludgel”). Cognate with English fust.