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Beaker

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A drinking-glass; a rummer. (Greek, bikos, a wine jar.)

“Here, Gerard, reach your beaker.”

Browning: Blot in the ʹScuteheon, i. 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.