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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TANKARD  , a type of drinking

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vessel . The word was formerly used loosely of many sizes, usually large, of vessels for holding liquids; thus it was applied to such as held two or more gallons and were used to carry
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water from the conduits in
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London in the 16th and
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early 17th centuries . The word is now generally applied to a straight,
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flat-bottomed drinking vessel of
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silver,
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pewter or other
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metal, or of
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glass or pottery mounted on metal, with a hinged
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cover and handle, holding from a
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pint to a quart of liquor (see DRINKING VESSELS) . The derivation is obscure . It appears in O . Fr. as tanquart and in O . Du. as tanckaert . It may have been, as is suggested, metathesized from Gr . «avOapos,
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Lat. cantharus, a large vessel or pot . It is used to
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gloss
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amphora in the Promptorium Parvulorum (c . 1440) . It is not connected with " tank," a cistern or
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reservoir for water, which was formerly " stank," and is from
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Port. tanque, O .

Fr. estang, mod. etang, .

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pool; Lat. stagnum, whence Eng .

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