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seidel
[sahyd-l, zahyd-l]
noun
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
Word History and Origins
Origin of seidel1
Example Sentences
Soon we were sitting, four men in all, at a little, nicely decorated table, cutting into the steaming platter and drinking out of small seidels a magnificent sparkling wine.
"You may let me have a seidel of gin!" he says, sneerin' at the Kid—and we all fainted!
He had a full seidel of beer in his right hand and his empty left sleeve was flapping.
The Devil, finishing his seidel of Würzburger, eyed the young man quizzically.
They are always eating, mammoth plates heaped high with Bavarian cabbage, Koenigsberger Klopps, Hasenpfeffer, noodles, sauerkraut, Wiener Schnitzel ... drinking seidels of beer.
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