Neuter

fust

Meaning

cask (e.g. containing beer)

Etymology

In summary

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.

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