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Rummer

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of rum: more rum comparative, form-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem.

    "I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch."

  2. 2
    a large drinking glass (ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Partly from Dutch roemer, rummer (West Flanders); partly from Middle Low German römer; partly from German Römer (“Roman person or thing”), named because it was made in glassworks dating from the Roman era. See also roemer; and for the etymology compare Romeware.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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