Reverse Dictionary: DRINK – DRINKING VESSEL


(also see GLASS)


DRINKING VESSEL – ADJECTIVES
1566 BUMPING filled to the brim; said of a drinking vessel → colloq.


DRINKING VESSEL – NOUNS 
1000 — NAP a drinking cup or bowl → obs.
1348 — BEAKER a large drinking vessel with a wide mouth, an open cup or goblet → chiefly literary usage
1513 — SCULL → SKULL a drinking vessel or drinking bowl → obs.
1570 — CANIKIN → CANNIKIN a small can or drinking vessel 
1577 — SHELL a drinking vessel → obs.
1594 — CUSHION a drinking vessel → obs.
1609 — QUONIAM a drinking glass → obs.
1616 — SCHOONER a drinking cup, a bowl → Eng. dial. obs.
1624 — QUICK SHOT small drinking vessels that are quickly emptied → obs.
1685 — RABBIT a wooden drinking vessel → obs.
1715 — SNEAKER a drinking vessel → US
1721 — FACING-TOOLS drinking vessels → Sc. obs.
1721 — QUAIGH a small and shallow cup or drinking vessel with two ears for handles; generally of wood, but sometimes of silver → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1785 — YILL-CUP a wooden vessel from which ale is drunk → Sc.
1790 — MAZARD-BOWL a drinking bowl made of maple → Eng. dial. obs.
..19C — BROLL a drinking-pot → Sc.
..E19 — BAWDY-HOUSE GLASS a small glass → sl.
1819 — BLACK JACK a drinking vessel; a large copper can → Eng. dial.
1819 — JACK a drinking vessel; a large copper can → Eng. dial.
1823 — PANNIKIN a small metal (usually tinned iron) drinking vessel 
1824 — SCOOP a wooden drinking cup → Sc.
1824 — SCOOT a wooden drinking vessel → Sc.
1824 — SKUTIE a wooden drinking vessel → Sc.
.M19 — FACER a glass that holds a single dram of spirits → sl.
1852 — GABIE-COG a wooden drinking-cup → Sc.
1857 — SIR WALTER SCOTT a pint pot, which was the norm before pint glasses → Brit. rhyming sl.
1866 — KRUG a beer-mug or tankard 
1885 — GROWLER a pail, can, or pitcher used for carrying beer → Amer. sl.
1887 — BOWL a drinking vessel, a cup or mug → Amer. dial.
..L19 — JOLLY BOYS  group of small drinking vessels connected by a tube, or by openings one from another 
..L19 — QUART a quart-pot used for drinking → Aust. sl.
1905 — THURINDALE a pewter flagon holding about three pints → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1911 — BICKER a wooden drinking cup → Sc. (Bk.)
1919 — SHELL a standard 8-oz beer glass → Amer. dial.
1940 — LADY BLAMEY a drinking vessel made of half a beer bottle with the cut edge rounded by sandpaper → Aust. sl.
1942 — PRAIRIE SCHOONER a large glass or mug, esp. for beer → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCHOONER a large glass or mug, esp. for beer → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCUTTLE a large glass or mug, esp. for beer → Amer. sl. (Bk.)


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