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Stoup

noun

An archaic drinking vessel.

Basin for holy water. Synonym: stoop.

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"Stoup" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'll put it in the pint stoup, The pint stoup, the pint stoup, We 'll put it in the pint stoup, And ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... up and down for an hour, and then, entering a tavern, took his place at the window, where he could see up the street, called for a stoup of wine, and ...

— A Jacobite Exile - Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden • G. A. Henty

... So, Now sues the King for favour to the Guise, And all his Minions stoup when I commaund: Why this tis to have an army in the fielde. Now by the holy sacrament I sweare, As ancient Romanes over their Captive Lords, So will I triumph over this wanton King, And he shall follow my proud Chariots ...

— Massacre at Paris • Christopher Marlowe

... he gasped as they ran, "to be drinking a stoup of ale with me in my tower of Mettingham as you have done before this red day dawned? What would you ...

— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard

... and so fell he grew, That his owne sire and maister of his guise[*] Did often tremble at his horrid vew,[*] And oft for dread of hurt would him advise, 215 The angry beasts not rashly to despise, Nor too much to provoke; for he would learne The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise, (A lesson hard) and make the Libbard sterne Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did ...

— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser

Words linked to "Stoup" : stoop, drinking vessel, basin