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Hanap

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A costly goblet used at one time on state occasions. Sometimes the cup used by our Lord at the Last Supper is so called. (Old High German, hnapp, a cup.)

“He had, indeed, four silver hanaps of his own, which had been left him by his grandmother.”—Sir W. Scott: Quentin Durward, chap. iv. p. 71.

 

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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.

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