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porringer
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Word definitions for porringer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Porringer \Por"rin*ger\, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See Porridge .] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., alteration of potynger , potager "small dish for stew," from Middle English potage (see pottage ) by the same course of changes that produced porridge ; and with intrusive -n- by 1530s (compare passenger ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A porringer is a shallow bowl, between 4 and 6 inches in diameter, and 1½" to 3" deep; the form originates in the medieval period in Europe and they were made in wood, ceramic, pewter and silver . They had flat, horizontal handles. Colonial porringers tended ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) from which children eat
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small cup or bowl usually with a handle. 2 A small, pewter dish that colonial Americans ate their porridge from.
Usage examples of porringer.
Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemons, well put up to cure or prevent the Scurvy, Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porringers and small Frying Pans.
When Lindy was found with four roses in her hand, chances are the Porringers would have remarked on the similarity and mentioned it during the investigation.
The Viscount Who Loved Me copyright 0 2000 by Julie Coder Porringer ISBN: 0-380-80805-6 www.
Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinna mon, Pepper and Ginger, White Bisket, Butter, or 'Captains biscuit,' made with wheat flour or Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemons, well put up to cure or prevent the Scurvy, Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porringers and small Frying Pans.
At every turn, some new and wondrous object appeared to hand—gold cups and plates ornamented with jewels, silver-gilt candlesticks, ornate nefs, porringers, cast-gold aquamaniles shaped like lions with their tails arched across their backs to form handles, all manner of tableware, carven chairs inlaid with ivory or gold and silver wire, richly chased and engraved caskets filled with jewels, ropes of pearls, bracelets, rings, torques, gold-mounted cameos and intaglios, fine chains and gem-crusted girdles, shirts of mail, gauntlets, helms, greaves, cuirasses floridly engraved, etched and embossed with gold or silver—an entire armory—and weapons of an unknown metal, honed spite-sharp.
Would it,' he asked the ancestor, 'be a silver-gilt porringer on a circular moulded foot, the lower part chased with acanthus foliage, with beaded scroll handles, the cover surmounted by a foliage on a rosette of swirling acanthus leaves, the stand of tazza form on circular detachable feet with acanthus border joined to a multifoil plate, the palin top with upcurved rim?
From my example, a great part of them left their muddling breakfast of beer, and bread, and cheese, finding they could with me be suppli'd from a neighboring house with a large porringer of hot water-gruel, sprinkled with pepper, crumbl'd with bread, and a bit of butter in it, for the price of a pint of beer, viz.