Look up: porringer

1. porringer
   [n] - a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) from which children eat
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2. Porringer
   See Bleeding Bowl
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3. porringer
   Small bowl or cup with or without a lid and a single or pair of tab (or flat) handles, set horizontally. The term is derived from 'pottager', a vessel for pottage or stew. Porringers were made throughout the 17thand 18th centuries, in silver, pewter and delftware, and revived in the late 19thC. The Americans use the term to describe a shallow, one- …
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4. Porringer
   Por'rin·ger noun [ Middle English pottanger , for pottager ; confer French potager a soup basin. See Porridge .] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer . Wordsworth.
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5. porringer
   noun a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) from which children eat
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6. Porringer
   • (n.) A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
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7. porringer
   a shallow, round bowl with one or two flat, horizontal handles set on opposite sides of the rim and, usually, a shallow lid. In recent usage, the ...
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8. Porringer
   A small shallow circular vessel with one or two flat handles, in silver or pewter, found in pewter from the mid 16thC. Also a deeper vessel, often covered, with two scroll handles, occurring mainly in silver, but sometimes in base metal and pottery from the mid to late 17thC. More
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9. porringer
   The term is derived from pottager, a vessel for pottage or stew.
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10. Porringer
    A `porringer` is a small dish from which Europeans and colonial Americans ate their gruel or work=Collectors Weekly|Collectorsweekly.com|date=April 3, 2009|accessdate=May 1, 2011-->--> Porringers were shallow bowls, between 4" to 6" in diameter, and 1½" to 3" deep; the form or...
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