Definitions for stoup

stoup stoup

Spelling: [stoop]
IPA: /stup/

Stoup is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in stoup (opstu).

Definitions for stoup

noun

  1. a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
  2. Scot. a pail or bucket.
  3. Scot. and North England. a drinking vessel, as a cup or tankard, of various sizes. the amount it holds.

Origin of stoup

1350-1400; Middle English stowp Old Norse staup drinking vessel; cognate with Old English stēap flagon

Examples for stoup

There is a stoup in S. porch, but no other feature of interest.

It is not of great interest, but contains a stoup, a piscina, and a Norm.

On a pillar is an image of the Virgin, and underneath it a stoup.

Only one man, in a brown fur-cloak, did not budge from the side of the stoup.

The stoup that gaes often to the well comes hame broken at last.

I'll take a stoup and go down to the well yonder and fetch it.

If there had ever been a stoup, a cross, a rude piscina, they had long since gone.

Yes, Darcy, there was one drop more in the stoup, and I drained it!

Note the piscina and aumbry; the old font; the stoup in the S. porch.

Its church retains its stoup, piscina, and ancient font, and there is some 15th cent.

Word Value for stoup
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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