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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mug, especially one for beer, usually holding about a pint.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete Scotch spelling of steen, steen.
  2. n. An earthenware mug, especially one designed to hold beer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. See Steen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mug intended for serving beer
  2. n. experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)

Etymologies

  1. German, probably short for Steinkrug, stone jug : Stein, stone (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see stāi- in Indo-European roots) + Krug, jug.

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‘stein’ has been looked up 1069 times, added to 15 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 5.