seidel

[ sahyd-l, zahyd-l ]

noun

1. a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seidel¹

1905–10; < German; Middle High German sīdel < Latin situla bucket

Example Sentences

From Bellow to Woolf, Matt Seidel on the mystical workings of just 24 hours.

From The Daily Beast

Matt Seidel looks at the different ways three recent novels draw from this disruptive theme.

From The Daily Beast

As the story goes, Roker was driving by The Weather Channel team in West Palm Beach, Fla., when he saw Mike Seidel struggling.

From The Daily Beast

So, it went from blog to TV because one of our fans was Bruce Seidel, who started the Cooking Channel for Scripps.

From The Daily Beast

Musician Seidel was honorably discharged on the 9th, his term of service having expired.

From Project Gutenberg

I made the acquaintance of a miniature painter, named Seidel, who gave me some lessons, and sat to me.

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I think, though, that Mayor Seidel's defense would by itself make this experiment memorable.

From Project Gutenberg

All the sages, Seidel-Beckir himself, never composed a talisman so wonderful as you are.

From Project Gutenberg

He sat down in a secluded café with his cheek against a seidel of dark beer and began to caress the universe with his intellect.

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