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Punch bowl

noun

A large bowl for serving beverages; usually with a ladle.

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"Punch bowl" Quotes from Famous Books

... a very convenient landmark from which to indicate the more interesting features of the Mendip plateau. (1) The Roman road from Uphill to Old Sarum may be traced across a field near the house. (2) The Devil's Punch Bowl, one of the most notable swallets on the Mendips, is 1/4 m. nearer Bristol (climb a wall on the R. and the swallet, a funnel-shaped hollow, partly overgrown with brushwood, will be seen in a field ...

— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

... even funerals, whisky flowed with extraordinary freedom. It is worthy of record that among the effects of the Rev. Alexander Craighead, the famous teacher and organizer of Presbyterianism in Mecklenburg and the adjoining region prior to the Revolution, were found a punch bowl ...

— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... did not say why not. What must be the rest of the dinner, when the punch bowl was two ...

— The House in Town • Susan Warner

... rectitude, but last evening, on the way home, it seemed to me that I didn't do much else but step aside. At these parties no charge is made for punch. It is perfectly free. I asked a colored man who was standing near the punch bowl, and who replenished it ever and anon, what the damage was, and he drew himself up to ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

Words linked to "Punch bowl" : bowl