Definition of tankard:

part of speech: noun

Large drinking vessel.

Usage examples :

• He calls for a " drop of ale," to receive a pint tankard "Walking-Stick Papers", - Robert Cortes Holliday

• He sipped and nodded his head, looking towards his daughter, and lifting the tankard with a courtly gesture as if pledging her health. "The Dew of Their Youth", - S. R. Crockett

• She laughed gaily- they all laughed with her, and then there was a little altercation which ended in her putting her lips to the tankard just offered to Robin and sipping the merest fleck of its foam. "Innocent Her Fancy and His Fact", - Marie Corelli

• As for that great stain upon the silk, the wine made it when you threw your tankard at me, last Sunday but one. "Audrey", - Mary Johnston