Thanks; I suspect your indication that it is a punch bowl comes closer to the meaning now. I do wonder what Dr. Samuel Johnson would have stated that a punch bowl would then have been the same.
Incidentally, I have seen no inventory of the 17th or 18th century that mentions "punch bowl". Does anybody know of such a reference
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there's also this definition:
mon·teith (mn-tth)n.A large punch bowl having a notched rim on which cups can be hung.
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