Then there were cakes, steaming and hot, vegetables which fitted into the previous course with exquisite nicety, and, lastly, a wooden tankard of the in- variable Thither beer to finish off.

He set a wooden tankard, from which rose the sour smell of cheap wine, before the big youth.

A 2000 year old wooden tankard of approximately four pint capacity has been unearthed in Wales.

Laying his wooden tankard down on the table and refilling it from the small keg thereon, he delivered his considered opinion.

"The seas seem to be a bit rough this afternoon," Alaire said conversationally as the servant poured wine in wooden tankards.

"It is very tempting," he said as he picked up a wooden tankard.

Several barrels stood behind it, the shelf above them holding crude wooden tankards.

When he called out a drowsy 'come in', she did just that, carrying a tray with a plate of warm soft flatbread and a wooden tankard.

She brought them large, copper-bound wooden tankards of foamy beer.

The mate shoved a wooden tankard into my hand, and I drank gratefully.