rummer

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Partly from Dutch roemer, rummer (West Flanders); partly from Middle Low German römer; partly from German Römer (“Roman person or thing”), named because it was made in glassworks dating from the Roman era. See also roemer; and for the etymology compare Romeware.

rummer (plural rummers)

1. A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem. [from 17th c.]
   • 1793, James Boswell, “Journals 1789–1795”, in Danziger, Brady, editors, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 241:

     I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rummer

1. comparative form of rum: more rum

rummer

1. present of rumme