The Collaborative International Dictionary
holy-water stoup
Stoup \Stoup\ (st[=oo]p), n. [See Stoop a vessel.]
A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.(Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup or holy-water font.
Usage examples of "holy-water stoup".
Outside the bedroom door had been a holy-water stoup, dried up with the drought of Enderby's boyish disbelief.
On the opposite wall hung a blackened crucifix and a small holy-water stoup that had been dry for a generation, and was now a receptacle for dust and a withered sprig of rosemary.