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drinking vessel

Other forms: drinking vessels

Definitions of drinking vessel
  1. noun
    a vessel intended for drinking
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    types:
    loving cup
    a large drinking vessel (usually with two handles) that people drink out of in turn at a banquet
    mug
    with handle and usually cylindrical
    stoup
    an archaic drinking vessel
    tankard
    a large drinking vessel with one handle
    beer mug, stein
    a mug intended for serving beer
    coffee mug
    a mug intended for serving coffee
    toby, toby fillpot jug, toby jug
    a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
    type of:
    vessel
    an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
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