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BEAKER (Scottish bicker, Lat. bicarium, Ger. Becher, a drinking-bowl)

BEAKER (Scottish See also:
BICKER (connected by Skeat with bike, to thrust or strike)
bicker, See also:
LAT
Lat. bicarium, Ger. See also:
BECHER, JOHANN JOACHIM (1635-1682)
Becher, a drinking-bowl) , a large wide-mouthed drinking-See also:

CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup or laboratory See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel . See DRINKING-VESSELS .

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