Porringer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A shallow cup or bowl with a handle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small cup or bowl usually with a handle.
  • n. A small, pewter dish that colonial Americans ate their porridge from.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Originally, a porridge-dish; hence, a small vessel deeper than a plate or saucer, usually having upright sides, a nearly flat bottom, and one or two ears.
  • n. A head-dress shaped like a porringer: so called in jest.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle)
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