Do we say tanker or tankard

tanker 13 occurrences

They sat at a window table, ordered drinks, and talked as boats rocked quietly in the marina and an oil tanker worked outward around the Spring Point light.

A wave was washing completely over the bow of a tanker.

Not, you remark, mere cleansing chemicals, but something, as they say, "ideal;" and then, completing the tripod of the little life: TANKER'S YELLOW PILLS.

The blank tanker.

The black tanker.

The black tanker.

SEE Forester, C. S. The tanker.

Westbound tanker.

The blank tanker.

The black tanker.

The black tanker.

SEE Forester, C. S. The tanker.

Westbound tanker.

tankard 80 occurrences

Bertrand had a lay of Normandy, about a lady who walked in the apple-orchards and fell in love with a wandering minstrel; and Donaldson sang a rough ballad of Virginia, in which a man weighs the worth of his wife against a tankard of apple-jack.

We are dawdling our time away very idly and pleasantly at a Mrs. Leishman's, Chase, Enfield, where, if you come a-hunting, we can give you cold meat and a tankard.

Calls for a pint of alein a tankard.

Item, for an old sword to scrape the stones before the door with; three halfpence for stitching a wooden tankard that was burst.

Between this cask and the Abbot's lips Many have been the sips and slips; Many have been the draughts of wine, On their way to his, that have stopped at mine; And many a time my soul has hankered For a deep draught out of his silver tankard, When it should have been busy with other affairs, Less with its longings and more with its prayers.

"This looks like the cidre mousseux I drank at Littry," he said, and taking up his tankard tossed it off at a draught.

The people were so glad over the coronation that they overdid it, and their ghoulish glee alarmed the regular Norman army, the impression getting out that the Anglo-Saxons were rebellious, when as a matter of fact they were merely exhilarated, having tanked too often with the tankard.

This badge of servitude caused great annoyance among the people, who often wished to sit up and visit, or pass the tankard about and bid dull care begone.

One of these was placed reversed by the side of the president and croupier of each table, and presently afterwards flanked by a huge silver tankard of foaming ale, strong enough almost to blow into the air a first-rate man-of-war.

Several pieces were placed in our carriage; among others a handsome silver tankard and half-a-dozen goblets, which were never reclaimed.

Between these two characters sat the exciseman, with a pipe in one hand, and a tankard in the other.

'But you are all red,' observed the latter, taking a full draught from a foaming tankard which he held in his hand.

Then comedy was faultless, but 'twas coarse: Cobb's tankard was a jest, and Otter's horse.

And away he went once more with his great tankard hopping round his bonfire.

The beer he quaffed with peculiar pleasure, as it invitingly foamed in a silver tankard, which had been thickly embossed by the abbot of Wansfort, and presented by him to the Emperor Baldwin previous to his embarkation for the Holy Land.

'Bring me a tankard of something; and put that rubbish outside, landlord.

he said slowly; and he reached for the tankard of ale that had been brought to him, and that now stood on a chest at the foot of the stairs.

When he came to himself, he was amongst the last to leave the camp, got himself helped on to the back of a little Arab horse, covered with silken housings, and marched at a slow pace with the rear-guard, having beside him Geoffrey de Sargines, who watched over him, "and protected me against the Saracens," said Louis himself to Joinville, "as a good servant protects his lord's tankard against the flies.

Great search was made, however, and at last we found a silver tankard, on which was engraved a coat of arms.

The carriage went on very well with them; and it was not till six months afterwards that we found out that the tankard had been bought at a sale!" He told me, "when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,to do better than ordinary,I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable, quiet inn there.

"I am for an honest earthenware tankard myself!"

But for God's sake let us take off these masks and set ourselves down to the tankard and the good brown bread with less mummerya sham of which others have the reality.

Morits tries his hunting-horn, that which was Oberon's horn in the inn-parlour, and everything danced, from Ulla to "Mutter paa Toppen:"[M] they stamped with their feet and clapped their hands, and clinked the pewter lid of the ale-tankard; "hej kara Sjæl!

There are several varieties of turnips grown for cattle; the most striking of which are, the White round Norfolk; the Red round ditto; the Green round ditto; the Tankard; the Yellow.

The tankard is long-rooted and stands more out of the ground, and is objected to as being more liable to the attack of early frosts.

Do we say   tanker   or  tankard