stoup
nounUK, US /stuːp/
Etymology From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.
1
Obsolete A bucket.
2
Archaic A mug or other drinking vessel.
- Fetch me a stoup of liquor.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
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- …we ran up stairs together without speaking, and were instantly in the apartment I had left, where a stoup of wine still stood untasted.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 57:
3
A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.
- 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.1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 26:
- 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.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
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- She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 810:
- Derived terms
- stoupful