Meaning of harness cask | Babel Free

Definitions

A (usually round) barrel lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use.

archaic

Examples

“"Why, it's thirty year and more since I saw⟳ you last⟳. Here you are in your house, and me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask."”

“1883, William Clark Russell, "Going Aloft" in Round The Galley Fire, a collection of sketches and tales that originally featured in The Daily Telegraph newspaper Practical seamanship, in the old sense⟳, is bound to die⟳ out, because there is no need⟳ to preserve⟳ it. It was only the other day that an old skipper assured me that he was acquainted with the mate of a steamer who did not know⟳ what a harness-cask was, "and worst of all, sir," cried my friend, "he's not ashamed of his ignorance."”

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