Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as goglet.

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  • noun A long-necked earthenware vessel for holding water and keeping it cool in a hot climate

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Examples

  • Thereupon one came down to him with a mug and another with an ewer and a third with a gugglet; and he filled his pitcher and, bearing it back, said to the damsel, “O my lady, thou lackest nothing now.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he took the gugglet and, going out, found the Christian within the vestibule and said to him, “How comest thou here and how darest thou, O dog, enter my house without my leave?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he agreed with her to fast for a month as she had stipulated, and she said to him, ‘I will help thee with the prayers I pray for thee and now bring me a gugglet of water.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he went out and presently returned with a gugglet of sherbet flavoured with rose-water, scented with musk and cooled with snow; and he set this before them saying, “Complete your kindness to me!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And after he had accomplished the ten days thereof, on the eleventh he opened the gugglet and drank what was therein and found it cordial to his stomach.

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  • So Ajib took the gugglet and drank and passed it to the Eunuch; and it went round till their stomachs were full and they were surfeited with a meal larger than their wont.

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  • Then the Eunuch bade his lads bring a gugglet of sugared sherbet and, after drinking himself, gave it to the Fireman, who drank; but all the while his tears never dried, out of fear for his life and grief for his separation from Zau al-Makan and for what had befallen them in their strangerhood.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So she took a gugglet of water and, after uttering words over it, sprinkled upon me a few drops, saying, “Come forth from that form into thy former form.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thy father took the gugglet and arose and set it apart in a closet of his palace, then locked the door and put the key in his pocket.

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  • And when he had ended his verse, the slave-girl came down upon him with blows till he fainted again; and, throwing him a flap of bread and a gugglet of saltish water, went away and left him sad and lonely, bound in chains of iron, with the blood streaming from his sides and far from those he loved.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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