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Definition of Costrel
1. n. A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
Definition of Costrel
1. Noun. (archaic) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Costrel
1. a flask [n -S] - See also: flask
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costrel
Literary usage of Costrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Specimens: Illustrative of the Composition and Manufacture of by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Henry Thomas De La Beche, Trenham Recks (1871)
"EARLY ENGLISH costrel, (fig. 93). Height 10 inches, breadth 5^ inches, measured
across projections, of which there are two on each side in form of lions' ..."
2. An English and Welsh Dictionary: Wherein, Not Only the Words, But Also, the by John Walters (1828)
"A glass bottle, costrel wydr. A leather-bottle, fiée Borachio. ... a roddwyd mewn
costrel A bottling up, ..."
3. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise (1896)
"The knowledge that a costrel is a labourer's wooden receptacle for drink was not
so general that the poet could afford to leave any doubt whether the youth ..."
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