Beaker

Definitions

1. A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
2. A drinking vessel without a handle.
3. A mug.
4. An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
5. A scientist.
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Examples

“The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.”

“[…] at every meal break⟳ he shambled into the galley black-fingered and smelling of engine-grease and concrete floors, to contemplate over his meal the beakers at their round tables chatting away, completely oblivious […]”

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