parting cup
1parting cup — parting cup, a drinking cup having two handles, used by two people in taking a draft of liquor at parting …
2parting-cup — partˈing cupˈ noun A two handled drinking cup • • • Main Entry: ↑part …
3cup and ball — noun 1. : a bilboquet having a cup; also : the game of maneuvering the bilboquet so as to catch the ball in the cup 2. : the cross parting in columnar igneous rocks in which one face of the parting is concave and the other convex (as in the… …
4parting — Synonyms and related words: Godspeed, abandonment, abstraction, adieu, alienation, aloha, annihilation, bane, biological death, breaking up, breakup, cessation of life, cleaving, clinical death, closing, concluding, conge, crossing the bar,… …
5stirrup cup — Synonyms and related words: Godspeed, Mickey, Mickey Finn, adieu, aloha, aperitif, chaser, cocktail, conge, doch an dorrach, drink, eye opener, farewell, good bye, highball, knockout drops, leave, leave taking, mixed drink, nightcap, parting,… …
6Stirrup Cup — A Stirrup Cup is a parting cup given by the Scottish Highlanders to guests when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups. In colloquial Highland Scots, by a borrowing from the Gaelic, the host may well, in inviting his guest to stay… …
7Stirrup cup — Stirrup Stir rup, n. [OE. stirop, AS. stigr[=a]p; st[=i]gan to mount, ascend + r[=a]p a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. [root]164. See {Sty}, v. i., and {Rope}.] 1. A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like,… …
8STIRRUP CUP — a parting cup given by the Highlanders to guests when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups …
9grace cup — n. 1. a) a cup passed around for drinking a toast after grace at the end of a meal b) the toast 2. a parting drink or toast …
10stirrup cup — n. (In Scotland and Ireland) deoch an doruis, doch an dorris, farewell drink, parting drink; cup in which such drink is served …
