stoup

noun

1. (obsolete)A bucket.
2. (archaic)A mug or other drinking vessel.

   “Fetch me a stoup of liquor.”

   “Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.”

   “…we ran up stairs together without speaking, and were instantly in the apartment I had left, where a stoup of wine still stood untasted.”

3. A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.

   “He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.”

   “But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.”

   “She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.”

verb

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of stoop.