beaker

A flat drinking tumbler or cup, from the German becher. (See bicker.)

← beak × beak-head beam →

Beaker
·noun A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. II. Beaker ·noun An...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
beaker
(Germ. becher, Dutch beker.) A tumbler. "This word," says Mr. Pickering, "not many years ago was in ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.