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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
POR'RINGER, n.
1. A small metal vessel in which children eat porridge or milk, or used in the nursery for warming liquors.
2. A head-dress in the shape of a porringer; in contempt.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child was eating pottage from a porringer"
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English potager, potynger, from Anglo-French potageer, from potage pottage Date: 1522 a low usually metal bowl with a single and usually flat and pierced handle
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. a small bowl, often with a handle, for soup, stew, etc. Etymology: earlier pottinger f. OF potager f. potage (see POTTAGE): -n- as in messenger etc.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Porridge dish.
