Brewer's: Monteith'

A scalloped basin to cool and wash glasses in; a sort of punch-bowl, made of silver or pewter, with a movable rim scalloped at the top; so called from its inventor.

New things produce new names, and thus Monteith Has by one vessel saved his name from death.

King.

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