What is "tankards"

Usage examples of "tankards".

Joints of mutton and breasts of pheasant rounded out the meal, along with tankards of mead and ale.

Brice and Angus were standing before a roaring fire, enjoying tankards of ale.

The men at the far table set down their tankards and looked at him with cold, hard eyes.

Except for Cullyn, the warband began cursing and slamming their tankards on the table.

Nevyn dipped them ale from a barrel, then brought the dented tankards over to join Rhegor at the table.

He nursed a couple of tankards and huddled by the warmth of the hearth while he wondered if Cullyn truly would be able to get him some coin and a sword.

The tankards were bottom heavy, apparently to make them stable on moving surfaces.

Behind the makeshift bar, an overweight man in a shirt with full, baggy sleeves was dipping tankards into an open keg and setting them on the bar.

The man set four full tankards on the bar and scooped the coin into a pouch of his own.

Many of the pirates were already asleep on deck with their tankards still in their hands.

Captain Morgan paused to pour more rum into all the tankards, He seemed surprised to find that the other two were still nearly full, but he said nothing about it.

The two buccaneers looked up over their tankards in surprise at Steve.

They sat and waited until their tankards were empty, but nothing else happened.

Then one of them said something, lifting his eyebrows in an exaggerated manner, and they both laughed rather nervously, drained their tankards, and rose.

Near everyone in the place was crowded up against the dirty glass, watching as the hawk-nosed stranger poured two full tankards and slid them across the table, emptying eating forks and trencher knives out of the last tankard and sliding them across too.