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tyg, tig|tɪg|
[Origin unknown.]
A name said to have been formerly given in the Staffordshire potteries to a porringer; now applied by antiquaries and collectors to a drinking-cup with two or more handles, attributed to the 17th and 18th c.
1838Bosworth Anglo-Sax. Dict. s.v. Tigel, To this day porringers are called tigs by the working potters. 1855H. de la Beche & T. Reeks Catal. Specimens Brit. Pottery, etc., Mus. Pract. Geol. 116 Three handled tyg, a drinking cup of the time, so handled that three different persons, drinking out of it, and each using a separate handle, bring their mouths to different parts of the rim. 1865E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood I. 76 The tyg or cup with two or more handles, was a favourite drinking vessel in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1880C. H. Poole Gloss. Stafford, Tyg, a two-handled cup. 1892Raine Handbk. to York Museum 169 Cruses and tygs of black and brown ware. |