Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large basin with a notched rim on which cups or glasses can be hung, typically used as a punch bowl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large punch-bowl of the eighteenth century, usually of silver and with a movable rim, and decorated with flutings and a scalloped edge. It was also used for cooling and carrying wine-glasses.
- noun [Appar. of different origin from the above, but from the same surname.] A kind of cotton handkerchief having white spots on a colored ground, the spots being produced by a chemical which discharges the color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
monteth . - noun A kind of cotton handkerchief having a uniform colored ground with a regular pattern of white spots produced by discharging the color; -- so called from the Glasgow manufactures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
bowl used for the cooling or washing of wineglasses - noun obsolete a cotton
handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Possibly after Monteith, (Monteigh), an eccentric 17th-century Scotsman who wore a cloak scalloped at the hem.]
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From the Scottish surname Monteith.
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Bob talked with stan monteith about gold, silver, the united states economy and where we are headed.
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Bob talked with stan monteith about gold, silver, the united states economy and where we are headed.
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Early silver also created bidder excitement, with a fine English silver monteith bowl marked Sam Hood London 1694 bringing $8,625 (versus a $2,000-3,000 estimate) and a mid-18th Century American silver can with the mark of Samuel Minott, Boston selling for
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qms commented on the word monteith
When the rustic accustomed to life on the heath
Inherits the wealth that fate can bequeath
He'll wear kilts of silk,
Drink unicorn’s milk,
And whisky will fill his gleaming monteith.
September 2, 2014