Stoup

/stuːp/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A bucket..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A bucket.
2. (archaic) A mug or other drinking vessel.
3. A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.
4. Obsolete form of stoop.

Example Sentences

Fetch me a stoup of liquor.

Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.

…we ran up stairs together without speaking, and were instantly in the apartment I had left, where a stoup of wine still stood untasted.

He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.

But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.

She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.

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Word Forms

• stoups
• stoop
• stowp
• stouping
• stouped

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