STOUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stoup mean? 

• STOUP (noun)
  The noun STOUP has 2 senses:

1. an archaic drinking vessel

2. basin for holy water

  Familiarity information: STOUP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An archaic drinking vessel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

drinking vessel (a vessel intended for drinking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Basin for holy water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

stoop; stoup

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

basin (a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids)

 Context examples 

Buvons my brave lads; you shall each empty a stoup with me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come, drink a stoup of muscadine with me, mes anges, for my heart is warm to be among ye again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let us on, for a stoup of wine would hearten us upon our way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hi, Dame Eliza, bring a stoup of your best to Will to clear his throat. Go forward with thy song, and if our girl-faced clerk does not love it he can take to the road and go whence he came.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A scared man was the keeper; for, having chained the brute to a stake while he drank a stoup of ale at the inn, it had been baited by stray curs, until, in wrath and madness, it had plucked loose the chain, and smitten or bitten all who came in its path.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ah! camarade,” he cried, “you shall have a stoup with me for this! What then, old dog, would not the hawk please thee, but thou must have the stork as well. Oh, to my heart again!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)