whiskins

Updated: May 22, 2025

According to the quaint spelling of those days there were then in use in Merrie England: "Mazers, noqqins, whiskins, piggins, cringes, ale-bowls, wassel bowls, tankard and kames from a pottle to a pint and from a pint to a gill."

Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess - Chats on Household Curios