quaighs

Passing a cooper's shop, which I had once had the run of, I stept in and bought two little quaighs; then in the character of travelling

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

His son had complained of some quaighs which Sir Walter had produced for a dram after dinner, that they were too large.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

The vulgarity of fame when it becomes the cry of the most prosaic is, however, calculated justly to alarm the literary soul, and in the excess of Scott monuments, and wooden quaighs, and tartan paper-knives, there is a damping and depressing quality which we must all acknowledge.

Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

When the "kava is in the cup," quaighs made of the "unexpanded leaf of the banana" are handed round to the guests, and the symposium begins.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Ay — ay — we maun a’ gang ae gate — crackit quart stoups and geisen’d barrels — leaky quaighs are we

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

_mountain dew_, which he poured with his own hand, _more majorum_, for each guest -- making use for the purpose of such a multifarious collection of ancient Highland _quaighs_ (little cups of curiously dovetailed wood, inlaid with silver) as no Lowland sideboard but his was ever equipped with -- but commonly reserving for himself one that was peculiarly precious in his eyes, as having travelled from

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

_quaighs_ introduced, John of Skye, upon some well-known signal, entered the room, but _en militaire_, without removing his bonnet, and taking his station behind the landlord, received from his hand the largest of the Celtic bickers brimful of Glenlivet.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

Ay, ay, we maun a 'gang ae gate -- crackit quart-stoups and geisen'd barrels -- leaky quaighs are we a', and canna keep in the liquor of life -- Ohon, sirs! '"

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836