Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drinking-vessel formerly in use, especially intended for drinking mead or metheglin.
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- noun historical, Ireland A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape.
- noun dialect
Four in the old counting system of Northern England. The variantmethera was used in Weardale and Borrowdale.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I, OTOH, nailed his ex-wife as being a horrible human the first time I met her at age 4 and loved my stepmom from the first time I mether.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale College Student Charged With Voyeurism: 2007
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I mether on the street about fifteen or twenty days ago, and shetold me she was going soon.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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I mether on the street about fifteen or twenty days ago, and shetold me she was going soon.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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I mether on the street about fifteen or twenty days ago, and shetold me she was going soon.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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Before she could reiterate her question, however, he had mether with another.
The Letters 1910
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And in your oaken mether the yellow mead shall flow
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Before she could reiterate her question, however, he had mether with another.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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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 Standish O'Grady 1887
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So, it is not anymore a gtk frondend to the previous python based one. mether pointed me to Vala and I started porting lekhonee-gnome.
Fedora People kd 2010
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Is it possible to hard code the style names and loop it or use another mether that does not involve making selections.
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