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

The Braves depended on a lot of pitchers this season who entered the year with preexisting injury issues.

— Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 12 Oct. 2026
This is postseason baseball, where the best pitchers take center stage and runs are at a premium.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of pitcher

Noun

Once the jug was off, the cub was quickly revived and reunited with its mother, who stayed in the area, officials said.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026
Detainees described at least one other incident in which pepper spray was deployed against them by officers, after asking officers to not remove a jug of clean water.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of jug

Noun

For Japanese-style short-grain white rice, a rough stovetop starting point is 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of water per cup of rice.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Tents are set up along the river for everyone to have a place to warm up, get a cup of coffee or a change of clothes.

— Anna Meiler, CBS News, 16 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

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
The quantumness involved is simple, fleeting, and kind of unavoidable — even in a flask of dead chemicals, some tiny particles will tunnel through energetic barriers.

— Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of flask

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