Brewer's: Hanap

A costly goblet used at one time on state occasions. Sometimes the cup used by our Lord at the Last Supper is so called. (Old High German, hnapp, a cup.)

“He had, indeed, four silver hanaps of his own, which had been left him by his grandmother.” - SirW. Scott: Quentin Durward, chap. iv. p. 71.

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