porringer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: porringer	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for porringer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
porringer n a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child was eating pottage from a porringer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Porringer \Por"rin*ger\, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See {Porridge}.] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth.