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What (who) is Tankard - definition
DRINKING VESSEL
Beer mug; Tankards
![A white [[slipware]] tankard from [[Cyprus]], circa 1600–1150 B.C](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Terracotta tankard MET DP121207.jpg?width=200 "A white [[slipware]] tankard from [[Cyprus]], circa 1600–1150 B.C")
.svg?width=200 "Modern glass stein or tankard")
![Wooden tankard in the coat of arms of [[Honkajoki]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Honkajoki.vaakuna.svg?width=200 "Wooden tankard in the coat of arms of [[Honkajoki]]")
Tankard
·noun A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
tankard
¦ noun a tall beer mug, typically made of silver or pewter, with a handle and sometimes a hinged lid.
Origin
ME (denoting a large tub for carrying liquid): perh. related to Du. tanckaert.
tankard
(tankards)
A tankard is a large metal cup with a handle, which you can drink beer from.
N-COUNT
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A tankard of beer is an amount of it contained in a tankard.
...a tankard of ale.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
Wikipedia
Tankard
A tankard is a form of drinkware consisting of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle. Tankards are usually made of silver or pewter, but can be made of other materials, for example wood, ceramic, or leather. A tankard may have a hinged lid, and tankards featuring glass bottoms are also fairly common. Tankards are shaped and used similarly to beer steins.
Examples of use of Tankard
1. John Adams started his days with a large tankard of hard cider.
2. The tankard, a snip at '.'5, regulates the intake with phrases such as "your beer is running dangerously low" and "refill immediately – danger of sobering up". A spokesman for BoysStuff, the West Midlands company which sells the glass, admitted that it has a limited vocabulary but says: "It‘s better than nothing." Extended hours, good conversation.
3. We are the descendants of Vikings – who no sooner sank a tankard of mead than they were off raping and pillaging with blood–fever dancing red in front of their eyes – and of the kind of Saxons whose mediaeval games of football after church and a gallon or so of mead on a summer Sunday all too often turned into a bloody free–for–all in which teeth were lost, old scores were settled, and someone met an ugly end in a ditch.