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  • n  a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle)
    the child was eating pottage from a porringer

  • At the Poor Richard Club (Philadelphia), where he was presented with a silver spoon and porringer for his infant daughter, Andrea Sadja, he said: "Symphonic music is only a very .
  • Indoors is a dining room with a broad-beamed oak floor, no rug, and a table placed so strategically that it would take a center fielder's throw ing arm to get a porringer full .
  • More juice, by my porringer, and or anger! There are few creatures on earth more manly than the diapered hero of McCord's Perambulator Poems.

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