Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat, pear-shaped drinking vessel with loops for attachment to the belt of the user.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flask, flagon, or bottle; specifically, such a vessel of leather, wood, or earthenware, often of a flattened form, and generally with ears by which it may be suspended, used by British laborers in harvest-lime. Sometimes called pilgrim's bottle.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
Etymologies
- Compare Welsh costrel, Old French costrel, Latin costrellum, a liquid measure, costrellus a wine cup. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French costerel, possibly from costier, at the side, from coste, rib, from Latin costa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And, behold! the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead and a quarter of a young bullock.”
“And, behold! the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead, and a quarter of a young bullock.”
“And, behold, the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead, and a quarter of a young bullock.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘costrel’.
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 155 more...
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Jugs
aludel, aljofaina, pig, chytra, gallipot, brown-george, coffee-pot, cezve, ibrik, biggin, drip pot, water-jug and 78 more...
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easy
creasy, over easy, free-and-easy, greasy, speakeasy, take it easy, weasy, lope, leisurely, wing chair, uncomplicated, luminous and 38 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Bottle Collection
I have a sizable collection of fiddle- and banjo-shaped bottles. Some quite old, others not so old.
standard, saltmouth, rehoboam, pill bottle, tregnum, methuselah, thermos, Rehoboam, Marie Jeanne, surahi, junk-bottle, longneck and 95 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
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Items of interest.
Physical objects etc.
costrel, pilentum, zoot suit, inkstone, samovar, Snuff Box, carafe, decanter, cinqueda
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halcyonwhimsy's Words
jesticulous, costrel, denegate, bailiwick, brigadoon, abderian, longinquity, goober, verdigris, halcyon, frippery
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bilby "And, behold, the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead, and a quarter of a young bullock."
- Thomas Bulfinch, 'Age of Fable'. Sep 19, 2009
halcyonwhimsy a flask vessel made of earthenware, leather, or wood that is attachable to one's belt/waist by ears (hoops) on one or both sides of the vessel.
Originated around 1350-1400s Oct 2, 2007