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goglet
[gog-lit]
noun
a long-necked container, especially for water, usually of porous earthenware so that its contents are cooled by evaporation.
goglet
/ ˈɡɒɡɪ /
noun
Also called: guglet.a long-necked water-cooling vessel of porous earthenware, used esp in India
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of goglet1
Example Sentences
Goglet, gog′let, n. a water-cooler.
The king was hard pressed by the queen, and at last forced water from his own goglet into the Ray's mouth.
Com-plete in every particular,' said Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet.
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars.
Complete in every particular,' said Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet.
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