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tasku

Pronunciation: /ˈtɑsku/

“tasku” is a Finnish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. pocket (bag stitched to an item of clothing)
  2. pocket (enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another)
  3. pocket (ideal point to hit the pins that maximizes the chance for a strike)
  4. cul-de-sac (sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only)
  5. chat, wheatear (passerine birds in genera Saxicola, Oenanthe, Myrmecocichla, Thamnolea, Pinaromis, Cercomela and Campicoloides)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Swedish taska, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (probably through Middle Low German).

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