Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A globular jar of porous earthenware, with a long neck, used as a water-cooler; also, the quantity contained in such a jar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
gurglet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A jar or vase of
porous pottery for keeping water cool byevaporation .
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Examples
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Complete in every particular, 'said Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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There a French officer in Hessian boots, white trousers, blue uniform, and much-embroidered scarlet cuffs watched with amusement a slave carrying a goglet, or earthen jar, upon his head like an Egyptian, untouched by the hand, so adding dignity to carriage.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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There a French officer in Hessian boots, white trousers, blue uniform, and much-embroidered scarlet cuffs watched with amusement a slave carrying a goglet, or earthen jar, upon his head like an Egyptian, untouched by the hand, so adding dignity to carriage.
No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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There a French officer in Hessian boots, white trousers, blue uniform, and much-embroidered scarlet cuffs watched with amusement a slave carrying a goglet, or earthen jar, upon his head like an Egyptian, untouched by the hand, so adding dignity to carriage.
No Defense, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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Complete in every particular,’ said Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet.
Kim 2003
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