Definition of Drinking vessel

1. Noun. A vessel intended for drinking.

Specialized synonyms: Loving Cup, Mug, Stoup, Tankard
Generic synonyms: Vessel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Vessel

drinking behaviour
drinking bout
drinking bouts
drinking chocolate
drinking cup
drinking fountain
drinking fountains
drinking game
drinking games
drinking man's degree
drinking song
drinking songs
drinking straw
drinking straws
drinking vessel (current term)
drinking water
drinking waters
drinkings
drinkless
drinks
drinkware
drinkworthy
drinky
drinkypoo
drinkypoos
drins
drip
drip-dry
drip-suck irrigation

Literary usage of Drinking vessel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life, the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1886)
"These were in the shape of a horn, the primitive drinking- vessel, ... drinking vessel. These vases are usually of clay, but cheap as is the material, ..."

2. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1883)
"These were in the shape of a horn, the primitive drinking- vessel, ... drinking vessel. These vases are usually of clay, but cheap as is the material, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"8. Report of the Committee on the Silchester Excavations. See Reports, p. 412. 9. On a Prehistoric Drinking-vessel found near ..."

4. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... a very large drinking vessel, made probably of leather, to distribute liquor to great multitudes: named perhaps from its similarity to a cannon : Yond' ..."

5. Memoirs by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1903)
"CALABASH DRINKING-VESSEL. suddenly forsaken their possessions. The cooking-vessels and pots resembled in shape those of the Indians of Yucatan and Tabasco, ..."

6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Also, a very large drinking vessel, made probably of leather, to distribute liquor to great multitudes : named perhaps from its similarity to a cannon ..."

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