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Stoup

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bucket. obsolete
  2. 2
    basin for holy water wordnet
  3. 3
    A mug or other drinking vessel. archaic

    "Fetch me a stoup of liquor."

  4. 4
    an archaic drinking vessel wordnet
  5. 5
    A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.

    "He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of stoop. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.

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