Meaning of pannikin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A durable cup or other vessel used for drinking made of metal and coated in enamel.
2. The contents of such a vessel.

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Examples

“1852, Ellen Clacy (diarist), cited in Susan Lawrence, "Households on Australian goldfields" in Penelope M. Allison (ed.), The Archaeology of Household Activities, London: Routledge, 1999, ‘a block⟳ of wood forms a table, and this is the only furniture; many dispense with that. The bedding, which is laid on the ground, serves to sit⟳ upon. Tin plates and pannikins… compose the tea service.’”

“Scarcely had we got things fixed and supper under weigh⟳, when a yell⟳ from Boteler, 'He's going to spout!' caused us to drop teapot and pannikin, and tumble out of the tent in half no time.”

“A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.”

“It is all bound up in my mind⟳ with the winter cold, the ragged uniforms of militiamen, the oval Spanish faces, the morse-like tapping of machine-guns, the smells of urine and rotting bread, the tinny taste⟳ of bean-stews wolfed hurriedly out of unclean pannikins.”

“The peasants and their wives came to the doors of their cottages. Some brought out pannikins of water to the fleeing Jews; others laughed and jeered.”

“Water was seriously rationed, and each slave was given half a pint of water served in a pannikin.”

““[…] Put⟳ the billy on the fire, Jimmy, and we’ll drink⟳ him a good voyage in half a pannikin of tea before we turn⟳ in.””

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