tankard
IPA: tˈæŋkɝd
noun
- A large drinking vessel, sometimes of pewter, sometimes with a glass base, with one handle and often a hinged cover.
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Examples of "tankard" in Sentences
- Beer stein tankard music box 8″ ROLL OUT THE BARREL
- The tankard was a wedding gift from her husband, and a Dutch wedding scene is graven on the lid.
- I told him the tankard was the only thing, for there was nothing else that I thought could hurt me.
- I hoist my tankard to you, sir, and blatantly violate my own moral compunctions against posting again.
- The word tankard was originally applied to a heavy and large vessel of wood banded with metal, in which to carry water.
- We will get them that will rap the tankard was your grandmother's, and that you was in Shoreditch the night the act was committed; and we'll have two men that shall shoot your masters.
- These commonplace tankards of staves were not so rare as the beautiful carved and hooped tankard which is here pictured, and which is in the collection of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, of Brooklyn.
- This experiment of the chain and tankard is said to succeed as well with what is termed negative electricity in the theory of Dr. Franklin, as with what is termed positive electricity; but in that theory the negative electricity means
- "She told me, too," runs Johnson's recorded testimony, "that she had hired three men to swear the tankard was her grandmother's, but could not depend on them: that the name of one was William Denny, another was Smith, and I have forgot the third.
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