Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of drinking-vessel; a rummer.
- noun A tailless fowl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, humorous A
drinking vessel .
Etymologies
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Compare rummer, and see -kin.
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Examples
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Saxon rumkin then makes valour burgeon in tall men. "
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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