From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com   
      
   On 2015-09-10 16:38:56 +0000, Jim Hetley said:   
      
   > That's not the first definition I'd recognize.   
   > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoup   
   >   
   > Holy water basin or bucket or cup is more common.  If you use "stoop" I   
   > would think of either a threshold or the dive of a hawk.   
      
   Neither "stoup" nor "stoop" is in the OED with the desired meaning.   
   That doesn't exclude the possibility that it might be a word in the   
   guid Scots tongue -- I haven't a Scots dictionary to check -- but I   
   wouldn't use either in English, even Scottish English, without a damned   
   good reason.   
      
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