28 October 2016
stoup
[stoop]
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
Middle English, Old Norse
1350-1400; Middle English stowp < Old Norse staup drinking vessel; cognate with Old English stēap flagon
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Historical Examples
For answer, he swore a great oath that the landlord had mulled a stoup of wine for him, which he never doubted now was drugged.
Bardelys the Magnificent
Rafael Sabatini
The stoup that gaes often to the well comes hame broken at last.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop
In the eastern wall of the south porch is a stoup, which was formerly open, both within the porch and outside it.
A History of Horncastle
James Conway Walter
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Never mistake motion for action.
– Ernest Hemingway
On this day
28 October 1922 – Benito Mussolini, of the National Fascist Party, takes over the leadership of Italy’s government, after forcing Prime Minister Luigi Facta to resign following the ‘March on Rome’. Mussolini took the title ‘IL DUCE’ (The Leader).
28 October 1962 – end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, known in Cuba as the October Crisis and in Russia as Kарибский кризис (Caribbean Crisis), one of the major events of the Cold War as it brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict. It started when a USAF U-2 plane photographed evidence of Soviet air bases being constructed in Cuba on 14 October 1962. The U.S. considered bombing the bases, but ended up blockading Cuba, preventing Soviet weapons being delivered. Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev wrote to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, stating the blockade constituted an act of war. For 13 days, the Americans and Soviets conducted talks to resolve the crisis. On 28 October 1962, Kennedy and UN Secretary General U. Thant reached a public and secret agreement with Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba, while the U.S. gave an agreement to never invade Cuba. Secretly, the U.S. agreed to dismantle its ballistic missiles in Turkey.
28 October 1965 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Author of ‘The Old Man and the Sea‘.