stoup

American  

[stoop] / stup /

noun

1. a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.

2. Scot. a pail or bucket.

3. Scot. and North England.

   1. a drinking vessel, as a cup or tankard, of various sizes.

   2. the amount it holds.

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stoup British  

/ stuːp /

noun

1. a small basin for holy water

2. Also: stowp. dialect a bucket or drinking vessel

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Etymology

Origin of stoup

1350–1400; Middle English stowp < Old Norse staup drinking vessel; cognate with Old English stēap flagon

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Example Sentences

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stoup

Holy water is used by Catholics to make the sign of the cross when they come into church and the stoup is usually by the entrance.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2015

Father Marc Lyden-Smith said a police officer had smelled urine from a stoup and said he found it "incredible" anyone could do such a thing.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2015

He had brought him into the ordinary, sat him down in a chair, put a great stoup of ale before him, and then begun to talk to him.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

"The deil's in the man!" replied Willie, in amazement at the singularity of the laird's remarks, "and havena I been at it a' my life—ay, sin' I was nae bigger than a pint stoup."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

For they had had the garrison long enough with them to learn that all soldiers are great trenchermen, and can right nobly "claw a bicker" and "toom a stoup" with any man.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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