Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large drinking cup having a single handle and often a hinged cover, especially a tall pewter or silver mug.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel, larger than a common drinking-cup, used for holding liquor. The word is used loosely, but generally implies a covered vessel holding a quart or more, and is commonly associated with the tap-room of an inn.
- Of or pertaining to a tankard; hence, convivial; festive; jovial.
Wiktionary
- n. A large drinking vessel, sometimes of pewter, sometimes with a glass base, with one handle and often a hinged cover.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large drinking vessel with one handle
Etymologies
- Middle English, of unknown origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word tankard was originally applied to a heavy and large vessel of wood banded with metal, in which to carry water.”
“This experiment of the chain and tankard is said to succeed as well with what is termed negative electricity in the theory of Dr. Franklin, as with what is termed positive electricity; but in that theory the negative electricity means”
“Beer stein tankard music box 8″ ROLL OUT THE BARREL”
“I told him the tankard was the only thing, for there was nothing else that I thought could hurt me.”
“We will get them that will rap the tankard was your grandmother's, and that you was in Shoreditch the night the act was committed; and we'll have two men that shall shoot your masters.”
“The tankard was a wedding gift from her husband, and a Dutch wedding scene is graven on the lid.”
“These commonplace tankards of staves were not so rare as the beautiful carved and hooped tankard which is here pictured, and which is in the collection of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, of Brooklyn.”
“She told me, too," runs Johnson's recorded testimony, "that she had hired three men to swear the tankard was her grandmother's, but could not depend on them: that the name of one was William Denny, another was Smith, and I have forgot the third.”
“I hoist my tankard to you, sir, and blatantly violate my own moral compunctions against posting again.”
“Would I get to be one of those COOL ones that has a following of grim faced warriors who hail my name while hoisting a tankard?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tankard’.
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 155 more...
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Jugs
aludel, aljofaina, pig, chytra, gallipot, brown-george, coffee-pot, cezve, ibrik, biggin, drip pot, water-jug and 78 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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'Wasted' Words
Alcohol-related words that tickle the ear & the fancy
absinthe, ambrosial, Bordeaux, burgundy, bibulous, wineskin, champagne, claret, corkscrew, drip dickey, frizzante, flagon and 74 more...
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Billiebob's Words
chaparral, benevolent, purview, adroit, nimble, stigmata, placard, ribald, robust, husk, tankard, placate and 45 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 55 more...
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edwardhenry's words
ebenezer, stentorian, artesian, hoodie, fine, chiaroscuro, oscillation, macerate, polyamory, adequite, obliterate, pathetic and 41 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir It is said that the Man of Ross (John Kyrle) was present at the casting of the tenor, or great bell, and that he took with him an old silver tankard, which, after drinking claret and sherry, he threw in, and had cast with the bell. --George Cox Bompas, Life of Frank Buckland. Smith, Elder & Co., 1885.
(Ross, Herfordshire) Oct 2, 2011
hernesheir Perhaps the adjectival use of tankard to mean "in high spirits", jovial" came about by the resemblance of tho sound -ard in the word to -ered in adjectival participles such as plastered , puckered, etc. Oct 2, 2011
bilby "Tears of the tankard - The drippings of liquor on a man's coat."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 11, 2008