Definitions for stoups

stoups stoup

Spelling: [stoop]
IPA: /stup/

Stoups is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in stoups (opsstu).

Definitions for stoups

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 stoups

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

Examples for stoups

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 stoups
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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