stoup

A bucket.

A mug or other drinking vessel.

Fetch me a stoup of liquor.

Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.

A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.

He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.

But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.

Obsolete form of stoop.