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Definition of Punch bowl
1. Noun. A large bowl for serving beverages; usually with a ladle.
Definition of Punch bowl
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of punchbowl) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punch Bowl
Literary usage of Punch bowl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1841)
"At length we reached " the Devil's punch bowl," a small lake in the midst of
rocks almost perpendicular. Our rude sketch may convey some idea of its ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"by the fact, that a punch-bowl was in the last century considered to be a very
suitable present from a merchant or banker to a trusty clerk or book-keeper, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"ON LENDING A PUNCH-BOWL THIS ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old
times, Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas-times; ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"ON LENDING A PUNCH-BOWL. ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old
times, -*- Of joyous days, and jolly nights, ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"T was purchased by an English squire to please his loving dame, 1 This ' punch-bowl'
was, according to old family tradition, a caudle-cup. ..."
6. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"T was purchased by an English squire to please his loving dame, 1 This ' punch-bowl *
waa, according to old family tradition, ..."
7. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"You have your judgment; will you trust to mine? 7° 1846. ON LENDING A' PUNCH-BOWL
1 This ancient silver bowl of mine ..."
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