Possible Clues:

• Water-cask; object of derision
• Object of scorn, of humour
• What could be outside room at end of spout?
• Set end to end
• Part of a gun's target
• Only last of claret in cask
• You might grind it out
• An object of ridicule, however taken at first
• He was man of the match in Multan
• That's enough to make 'er fat as a barrel