Thesaurus results for FLAGON

flagon

noun

ˈfla-gən

Definition of flagon

as in pitcher

a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout brought a flagon of wine to the table

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Recent Examples of flagon After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum. — Pearse Anderson, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023 Reiche interjected that the resulting settlement contract is the first contract he's ever signed that included specific language about bees and about how many jars of honey must be exchanged per month for flagons of mead. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 11 June 2019

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Noun

While there are plenty of storylines for the rest of the series, but most importantly for today is the matchup between the starting pitchers.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Both pitchers settled into the game, and the offenses stalled.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of pitcher

Noun

The shed behind his home is practically a science lab, full of jugs and evaporators and gallons of sap.

— Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Two common types of plastic — polyethylene and polypropylene, used widely to make food containers, packaging, milk jugs and bottle caps — produced the most hydroxyl radicals detected by the researchers.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of jug

Noun

In Shibuya, Halloween festivities were already a nuisance — but now, officials realized there was more to worry about than empty bottles and loud music.

— Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
An argument broke out, and the 25-year-old fan was beaten nearly to death, his throat slashed with a broken beer bottle.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of bottle

Noun

The poll watchers inside can bring a cup of coffee across the street to the federales every hour or so, and talk about those Hogs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
For those who don’t want doughnut there are cones and cups for just ice cream.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of cup

Noun

Somewhere between Venice and Paris, just as afternoon tea was served—raspberry tartlets and biscotti squisiti, coffee poured from silver ewers into porcelain cups—JR, the French artist known for his public installations, was starting to freak out.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Inspired by antiques like cobalt glass, Egyptian glass ewers and hotel breakfast sets and mid-20th-century Italian glassware, Jacobsen came up with the Continental Collection.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025

Definition of ewer

Noun

In addition, the workshop serves as a warmth station, with more blankets and probably a flask of something.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Said, meanwhile, drew on an ancient Egyptian New Year’s flask in the Met’s collection for Shaping Time, a monumental ceramic structure that reinterprets the forms and motifs of his cultural heritage.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of flask

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