Definitions for beaker

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beaker beak·er

Spelling: [bee-ker]

IPA: /ˈbi kər/

Beaker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in beaker (abeekr).

Definitions for beaker

noun

1. a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
2. contents of a beaker:
3. a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.

adjective

1. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Beaker folk.

Origin of beaker

1300-50; alteration of Middle English biker Old Norse bikarr Old Saxon bikeri (compare Old High German bechari, German Becher, Dutch beker) Latin *bic(c)arium, -ius, of disputed orig. See

Examples for beaker

After he had looked into the beaker of Nektanebus, he yielded to my will, but often with indignation.

We have a mast and sail there, I see, and water in the beaker.

He took the beaker that was handed him and drank a deep draught.

His hands as they grasped the beaker seemed white and delicate.

A sealing jar or even a tin cup will do instead of the beaker.

A beaker or small cask was in the meantime got ready with a line secured to it.

"I don't think so," he replied, regarding the beaker and not his answer.

The beaker of wine for the prophet Elijah stood as naïvely expectant as ever.

The old man caught up a beaker from the buffet and handed it to the boy.

He emptied his beaker, threw it to the ground, and sprang to his horse.