an earthenware beer mug, or a similar mug of pewter, glass, etc.
the amount that a stein will hold, about a pint
Stein,
Gertrude 1874-1946; U.S. writer in France
See stein in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(stīn)
noun
A mug, especially one for beer, usually holding about a pint.
(stīn), Gertrude 1874-1946.
American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. In Paris during the 1920s she was a central member of a group of American expatriates that included Ernest Hemingway. Her works include Three Lives (1908), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933).