porringers

It should be stated that the word porringer, as used by English collectors, usually refers to a deep cup with a cover and two handles, while what we call porringers are known to these collectors as bleeding-basins or tasters.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

For others, well, the catalog is a gateway to the material culture of the colonial past in North America, featuring everything from tinware lanterns and redware porringers to clothing and patterns, even 18th-century scissors for do-it-yourselfers.

Applause for Re-Enactors Mark Rose 2009

And potherbs, steeped in vinegar, in porringers thereby!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The “Muhit” tells us that is a tree parcel yellow and red growing in parts of India and China, its leaf is that of the Tamarisk (Tarfá); its flower is coloured red, yellow and white; it bears a grain like mustard-seed (Khardal) and of its wood they make porringers.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Dark young men in round caps serve glasses of peppered vodka cradled in porringers of crushed ice.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Dark young men in round caps serve glasses of peppered vodka cradled in porringers of crushed ice.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

They affect Rims cars, out of the way, heavy rhymes: e.g. here Sakáríj (plur. of Sakrúj, platters, porringers); Tayáhíj (plur. of Tayhúj, the smaller caccabis-partridge); Tabáhíj (Persian Tabahjah, an me et or a stew of meat, onions, eggs, etc.)

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Dark young men in round caps serve glasses of peppered vodka cradled in porringers of crushed ice.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Take two porringers of cream and one of white wine, grate in the skin of a lemon, take the whites of three eggs, sweeten it to your taste, then whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises, and put it into your sillabub-glasses or pots, whether you have, then they are fit for use.

English Housewifery 2004

All trotting down with porringers and tommycans to be filled.

Ulysses 2003