| 1. | If they used porringers, they were often silver instead of pewter.
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| 2. | Porringers resembled the smaller quaich, a Scottish drinking vessel.
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| 3. | In more modern times, some manufacturers of porringers have produced them without handles.
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| 4. | She mixed milk and poison within a porringer, serving it to Thomas for breakfast.
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| 5. | Porringer : a cuplike serving bowl with one handle ( or, rarely, two ).
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| 6. | These types of porringers appear to be deep bowls, with the sides being nearly totally flat.
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| 7. | The booty included gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks and porringers.
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| 8. | She subsequently attempts to extort the money from Runkle by pinching his porringer, although that had proved to be a bust.
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| 9. | Bertie tries to set this aright by returning the porringer, but is caught, and hides the object in his bureau drawer.
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| 10. | Wooden porringers are occasionally found from excavations; e . g . 16th-century example from Southwark and 11th century from Winchester.
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