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quaich

[kweykh]
–noun
a Scottish drinking cup of the 17th and 18th centuries having a shallow bowl with two or three flat handles.

Origin:
1665–75; < ScotGael cuach
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quaich also quaigh   (kwāKH)   
n.   Scots
A two-handled drinking cup.

[Scottish Gaelic cuach, from Old Irish cúach, from earlier cuäch.]
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