Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle);
- Example: "the child was eating pottage from a porringer"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Porringer \Por"rin*ger\, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F.
potager a soup basin. See Porridge.]
A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat
or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
porringer
n 1: a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child
was eating pottage from a porringer"