Brewer's: Beaker

A drinking-glass; a rummer. (Greek, bikos, a wine jar.)

“Here, Gerard, reach your beaker.”

Browning: Blot in the Scutcheon, i. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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