mether

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  1. A drinking-vessel formerly in use, especially intended for drinking mead or metheglin. The vessels identified as methers are of wood, cut out of a single piece, having a capacity of from one to three pints. The Dunvegan cup, a mether of yew covered with silver mounts. S. K. Cat. Spec. Exhib., 1862, No. 902.

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  • Used preupgrade for the first time, took most of the packages from mether. —  Planet KDE
  • Before she could reiterate her question, however, he had mether with another. —  Tales of Men and Ghosts
  • An 'mind my' _mether ho_! an '_whug_! —  Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
  • He called for ale, and holding in his hands a huge four-cornered mether of the same, rimmed with silver and furnished with a double silver hand-grip, he pledged the King and bade him and his a kindly welcome. —  The Coming of Cuculain
  • The smiths cried out a friendly welcome to him as he sat up, for they held him now to be their foster-son, and Culain himself stood up in his place holding in both hands a great mether [Footnote: A four - cornered quadrangular cup.] of ale, and he drank to all unborn and immature heroes, naming the name of Setanta, son of Sualtam, now his dear foster-son, and magnified his courage, so that the boy blushed vehemently and his eyelids trembled and drooped; and all the artificers stood up too and drank to their foster-son, wishing him victory and success, and they drained their goblets and dashed them, mouth downwards, upon the brazen tables, so that the clang reverberated over Ulla. —  The Coming of Cuculain
 

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