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tankard

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From Middle English tan(c)kard(e), denoting 'a large tub for carrying liquid', perhaps related to Dutch tanckaert, from Middle Dutch tanckaert, meaning the same thing, but of uncertain ultimate origin. The OED suggests an alteration of Medieval Latin *kantard, from Latin cantharus (“tankard”).[1] Klein suggests French tant quart (“as much of a quarter”).[2]

Meaning "drinking vessel" is first recorded late 15th century.

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tankard (plural tankards)

  1. A large drinking vessel, sometimes of pewter, sometimes with a glass base, with one handle and often a hinged cover.
     
    Tankard
    I sure would be much happier with a tankard of mead right about now.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 249:
      It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.

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  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  2. ^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971

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