jorum

jorum puhekieltä A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages).
1773 (first performance), w:Oliver Goldsmith|Oliver Goldsmith, w:She Stoops to Conquer|She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy, by Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-books, by Permission of the Managers. “The lines distinguished by inverted commas, are omitted in the representation.”, London: Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of w:John Bell (publisher)|John Bell, British Library, w:Strand, London|Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, published 1791, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/645786039 645786039, Act I, scene ii; republished in Bells British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays'', volume IX, London: Printed for, and under the direction of, George Cawthorn, British Library, Strand, 1797, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472479652 472479652, https://books.google.com/books?id=RGALAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19 page 19:

Then come, put the jorum about, / And let us be merry and clever, / Our hearts and our liquors are stout, / Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.

In battle one day, with a jorum of flipNoun flip, / Jack, while crossing the deck, began reeling, / And fell, for his leg was shot off at the hip, / But the liquor he just saved from spilling.

You see, at that time, in the Duchy of Brunswick, or Braunschweig, now part of Germany, it was the custom for friendly groups to drink from the same receptacle, in this case a jorum, or basin—a good idea, rightly understood, in that it made for communitas, or community, (..)