† hanap Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈhænəp)
[a. OF. hanap (= Prov. enap), drinking-vessel, cup, ciborium:—O Frankish *hnapp- = OHG. hnapf, napf = OE. hnæp, hnæpp, Du. nap, cup, bowl, basin.]
A drinking-vessel, a wine-cup or goblet. Now applied, as an antiquarian term, to mediæval goblets of ornate character.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. 540 Kyng Rycharde gaue vnto the Frenshe Kyng an hanap or basyn of golde, w{supt} an ewir to the same. 1530 Palsgr. 54 Hanap is olde romant, though I fynde it used in Froissart. 1823 Scott Quentin D. iv, He had indeed four siluer hanaps of his own. 1853 A. Soyer Pantroph. 365 Charles the Bald gave to the Abbey of St. Denis a hanap, said to have belonged to Solomon. 1879 C. Dickens Dict. Lond. (1884) 25/1 A..collection of mazers and hanaps and cups. 1894 Times 19 July 4/4 A silver-gilt bulb hanap and cover, on three feet formed as draped male figures on diamond-shaped plinths..German, end of the 15th century. |