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  • noun Plural form of quaich.

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Examples

  • Unaffected by six shared quaichs of spirit, the strong voice still reverberated off the stones of the hall.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • At parties and clan gatherings, large quaichs filled with whisky were passed around the company from person to person.

    Cup of Friendship Jyothsna 2008

  • At parties and clan gatherings, large quaichs filled with whisky were passed around the company from person to person.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jyothsna 2008

  • He stood up and bent down to a nearby cupboard, producing a bottle of single malt and three pewter quaichs.

    Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004

  • Romaine_, continued on neat whisky in _quaichs_ and finished on port, liqueurs, champagne and haphazard brandy-and-sodas, whisky-and-sodas, and any old thing that was handy; and eighthly, that he had had a quart of beer instead of the brandy-cocktail for _choti hazri_.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • These "coppis," probably wooden drinking cups or quaichs, were evidently of some value according to the reckoning of that day.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • For quaichs of gold and precious belts, and magic stones which stirred

    Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879

  • Grain grew greener and greener -- reapers stood at the crosses of villages, towns, and cities, passing from one to another comfortless quaichs of sma 'yill, with their straw-bound sickles hanging idle across their shoulders, and with unhired-looking faces, as ragged a company as if you were to dream of a Symposium of Scarecrows.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • They are all, I think, to be viewed simply as curiosities associated with the historical interest of the place, and similar examples are to be found among our people in the numerous _quaichs_ (drinking-cups) and other articles which have been formed from the "Torwood Oak" that protected the illustrious Sir William Wallace from his enemies; from his oak at Elderslie, said to have been planted by his hand, two miles to the west of Paisley; and lately from such scraps of the old oaken rafters of the Glasgow Cathedral as could be obtained in the course of its modern repairs.

    Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

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