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esp. as a drinking vessel; whence the bowl, drinking, conviviality.
A drinking-bowl or cup. Obsolete exc. South African.
a tar-coated, leather drinking bowl; cf. black jack, n.2 1.
A person who steals tableware from a public house; (also) a heavy drinker. Also occasionally: a drinking bowl.