stoup
/stuːp
/noun
1A basin for holy water, especially on the wall near the door of a Roman Catholic church for worshippers to dip their fingers in before crossing themselves.On the walls there were rosaries, medals, several pictures of the Virgin, and a holy-water stoup made out of a coconut....
- One appeared to be a holy water stoup such as was found in Roman Catholic churches, of a plain character.
- A factory document of 1743 reveals that a series of holy water stoups had been commissioned by the nuns in the Royal Convent of Unshod Carmelites in Madrid.
1.1 archaic A flagon or beaker for drink: the jailer returned and left a stoup of water...
- II.3 has Iago left alone after Cassio's departure, after he has wheedled him into drinking a stoup of wine.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'pail, small cask'): from Old Norse staup, of Germanic origin; related to the verb steep2.
Rhymes
- ground plan
- ground rent
- ground rule
- ground run
- groundsel
- groundshare
- groundsheet
- groundsill
- groundskeeper
- ground sloth
- groundsman
- ground speed
- ground squirrel
- ground staff
- ground state
- groundstroke
- groundswell
- ground tackle
- ground-to-air
- ground troops
- ground truth
- ground truthing
- groundwater
- ground wave
- ground wire