Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large drinking cup or glass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drinking-glass or -cup; also, a cupful of wine or other liquor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large and tall
glass , or drinkingcup .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large drinking glass (ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"rummer" a quantity of spirit that four fingers would never half conceal.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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The Darth Jackson dude got rhough but the little rummer didnt?
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For this purpose, I have never found anything better than Henry Dean's thick, clear-glass rummer henrydean.be .
In the Mood for Long Lunches on the Lawn Rita Konig 2011
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The glover was soon heard loudly summoning Dorothy, and, after some clanking of keys and trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared bearing three large rummer cups of green glass, which were then esteemed a great and precious curiosity, and the glover followed with a huge bottle, equal at least to three quarts of these degenerate days.
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Then I made him a rummer of toddy and sent him to bed a trifle comforted.
Prester John 2005
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He took the bauble, and set it on the foot of a rummer which stood on the table; and in half a minute he had the counterpart in size, shape, and line; but without the inscription.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The other man did not stir until his officer was out of sight; and then he arose and rubbed himself, but did not care to go for his rummer of hot grog.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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If I've learned one thing in this wicked life, it is that no one, however rich, lays out cash for nothing, and the more they spend the rummer the business is likely to be.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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Ah, it's a rum world as we all lives in, and in nothink much rummer than in the wunderfool power of a bewtifool face, ah, and as sumbody says, for Wheel or for Wo, jest as it appens, more's the pitty.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 Various
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And she took the old glass -- a rummer it was -- and she carried it very daintily to the boys and bowed.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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