Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large drinking cup having a single handle and often a hinged cover, especially a tall pewter or silver mug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel, larger than a common drinking-cup, used for holding liquor.
- Of or pertaining to a tankard; hence, convivial; festive; jovial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
drinking vessel , sometimes ofpewter , sometimes with aglass base , with onehandle and often ahinged cover .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large drinking vessel with one handle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word tankard was originally applied to a heavy and large vessel of wood banded with metal, in which to carry water.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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This experiment of the chain and tankard is said to succeed as well with what is termed negative electricity in the theory of Dr. Franklin, as with what is termed positive electricity; but in that theory the negative electricity means
Note XII 1803
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Beer stein tankard music box 8″ ROLL OUT THE BARREL
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I told him the tankard was the only thing, for there was nothing else that I thought could hurt me.
She Stands Accused 1935
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We will get them that will rap the tankard was your grandmother's, and that you was in Shoreditch the night the act was committed; and we'll have two men that shall shoot your masters.
She Stands Accused 1935
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The tankard was a wedding gift from her husband, and a Dutch wedding scene is graven on the lid.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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These commonplace tankards of staves were not so rare as the beautiful carved and hooped tankard which is here pictured, and which is in the collection of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, of Brooklyn.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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"She told me, too," runs Johnson's recorded testimony, "that she had hired three men to swear the tankard was her grandmother's, but could not depend on them: that the name of one was William Denny, another was Smith, and I have forgot the third.
She Stands Accused 1935
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I hoist my tankard to you, sir, and blatantly violate my own moral compunctions against posting again.
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I hoist my tankard to you, sir, and blatantly violate my own moral compunctions against posting again.
bilby commented on the word tankard
"Tears of the tankard - The drippings of liquor on a man's coat."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 11, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word tankard
Perhaps the adjectival use of tankard to mean "in high spirits", jovial" came about by the resemblance of tho sound -ard in the word to -ered in adjectival participles such as plastered , puckered, etc.
October 2, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word tankard
It is said that the Man of Ross (John Kyrle) was present at the casting of the tenor, or great bell, and that he took with him an old silver tankard, which, after drinking claret and sherry, he threw in, and had cast with the bell. --George Cox Bompas, Life of Frank Buckland. Smith, Elder & Co., 1885.
(Ross, Herfordshire)
October 2, 2011