Tankard
['tæŋkəd] or ['tæŋkɚd]
Definition
(n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Typist: Tim
Definition
n. a large vessel for holding liquors: a drinking-vessel with a lid.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- Your ladyship wishes for the tankard? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This luxury his footman procured, together with a tankard of ale from a pothouse in the immediate vicinity of the theatre. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Also beer much sooner warms in a black mug set before the fire than in a white one, or a bright silver tankard. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Especially it was to be expected, as the landlady of the Tankard had said, that he would recklessly cut up their dead bodies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I mean no harm; and I drink most respectfully (having just done dinner) to your health and prosperity, in a tankard of her ladyship's ale. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Checker: Scott