cuvette

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. . In decorative art, a portable basin of ornamental form in pottery or porcelain, etc., especially one of the flat-bottomed vessels commonly sold with an aiguière or water-pot: frequent in faience of the eighteenth century.
2. n. . In glass manufacturing, a basin for receiving the melted glass after refining, and decanting it on the table to be rolled into a plate. In casting, the cuvette is lifted by means of gripping-tongs, chains, and a crane, and the contents are poured upon the casting-table. E. H. Knight.
3. n. . In fortification, a trench dug in the middle of a large dry ditch; a cunette.
4. n. In photography, a narrow vessel of glass, porcelain, vulcanite, etc., for holding silver nitrate or other solutions: it is placed vertically or at an angle, and into it the photographic plate is dipped.

Wiktionary

1. n. a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
2. n. a cunette
3. n. analytical chemistry a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
4. n. an inner lid of a timepiece

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
2. n. (Fort.) A cunette.