stoup

noun

Etymology: From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.

1. A bucket.
2. A mug or other drinking vessel.

   “Fetch me a stoup of liquor.”

   “Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.”

3. A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.

   “He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.”

   “But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.”

verb

1. Obsolete form of stoop.