Drinking-cup
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Drinking-cup is a noun meaning A cup for drinking.
Meaning
A cup for drinking.
Example Sentences
A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick.
Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.
If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.
"He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]"
Word Forms
- drinking-cups
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include standard, beerpot, parting-cup, cupholder, godet, cantharus.
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