bowl (n.)

bowl (v.)

Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 662.

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xii. 6.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl,

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 127.