beaker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a straight-sided, flat-bottomed laboratory container, usually with a pouring lip

   The technician heated the solution in a glass beaker.

2. 2
   noun

   a drinking cup without a handle

   Each guest received a wooden beaker filled with cider.

From Middle English beker or biker, through Old Norse and West Germanic forms, from Late Latin bicārium, 'drinking vessel.' It is related to Dutch beker and German Becher and is a doublet of pitcher.

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