DECANTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decanter mean? 

• DECANTER (noun)
  The noun DECANTER has 1 sense:

1. a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water

  Familiarity information: DECANTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECANTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carafe; decanter

Hypernyms ("decanter" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

Derivation:

decant (pour out)

 Context examples 

It is of no importance to us, however, since the decanters were full, and it had therefore not been used.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I flew downstairs and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I found on the table.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We did not stay there, after dinner, but came upstairs into the drawing-room again: in one snug corner of which, Agnes set glasses for her father, and a decanter of port wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I flew to the dining-room, and returned with the decanter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then he threw a decanter at that maid, Theresa Wright—there was trouble about that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Agnes set the glasses and decanters in the same corner, and Mr. Wickfield sat down to drink, and drank a good deal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was suspicious, and examined the decanter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Yes, sir, it is true that he threw the decanter at me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I glanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, no doubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was a boy—if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at the shining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths of old mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimming or cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their pure brass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coal fires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as if with the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below; and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficult indeed to be taken by storm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)