(n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recently has recommended that thiamin be added to cask and flagon wines, fortified wines, beer and flour.
(2) Five days in, the World Cup desperately needs some Spanish artistry, in the way someone lost in the desert could do with a flagon of water.
(3) He's here all week, try the magpie-striped thrupenny flagon of Nana Geordie's Shame Suppressor.
(4) "Looks like the pictured Mrs Taylor has got full value from her magpie-striped thrupenny flagon of Nana Geordie's Shame Suppressor," writes Mac Millings.
Tankard
Definition:
(n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
(2) The tankard, a snip at £9.95, regulates the intake with phrases such as "your beer is running dangerously low" and "refill immediately - danger of sobering up".
(3) Or, if it's on the specials board, try a Hennessy Smash – a cognac and strawberry drink served, incongruously, in a half-pint tankard.
(4) You'll also like the dimpled half-pint mugs, the tiny tankards for tasters and the pub's monthly War of the Roses, a Lancashire-versus-Yorkshire brewery showdown.
(5) Ten and more faecal coliform germs could be detected in 4.7% of the mechanically rinsed tankards and in 12.1% of those cleaned in open vats.