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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TANKARD , a type of drinking See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel. The word was formerly used loosely of many sizes, usually large, of vessels for holding liquids; thus it was applied to such as held two or more gallons and were used to carry See also:

WATER

water from the conduits in See also:

LONDON

London in the 16th and See also:

early 17th centuries. The word is now generally applied to a straight, See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat-bottomed drinking vessel of See also:

SILVER

silver, See also:

PEWTER

pewter or other See also:

metal, or of See also:

glass or pottery mounted on metal, with a hinged See also:

COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover and handle, holding from a See also:

PINT (derived probably through Spanish, from Lat. pincta, pitta, a painted or marked vessel)

pint to a quart of liquor (see DRINKING VESSELS). The derivation is obscure. It appears in O. Fr. as tanquart and in O. Du. as tanckaert. It may have been, as is suggested, metathesized from Gr. «avOapos, See also:

Lat. cantharus, a large vessel or pot. It is used to See also:

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

gloss See also:

AMPHORA (a Latin word from Gr. aµdopeus, derived from awl* on both sides, and OpeLv, to bear)

amphora in the Promptorium Parvulorum (c. 1440). It is not connected with " tank," a cistern or See also:

RESERVOIR

reservoir for water, which was formerly " stank," and is from See also:

PORT

Port. tanque, O.

Fr. estang, mod. etang, . See also:

POOL

pool; Lat. stagnum, whence Eng.

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