Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stoup"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stoup \Stoup\, n. [See {Stoop} a vessel.]
1. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]
2. (Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches
for containing the holy water with which those who enter,
dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called
also {holy-water stoup}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stoop \Stoop\, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. ste['a]p,
D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]
A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also {stoup}.]
Fetch me a stoop of liquor. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stoup
n 1: an archaic drinking vessel
2: basin for holy water [syn: {stoop}]
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