hottle
n.— «Please use hottles and lids when taking coffee to rooms.» —“hottle-wotd” by suzannelong Flickr Feb. 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In 1916, a small-town newspaper in Pennsylvania printed a fanciful item about a local gathering with a guest list that included, among others, Miss Ella Vader, Mr. Ray Zor, and other punny names. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
The owner of a Berlin, Maryland, produce stand wants to know: When a customer is buying four ears of corn, should they say I have four corn or I have four ears of corn? Corn is a mass noun that can also be counted as a plural, just as we might say I...
Hottles have nearly disappeared, but ordering coffee or tea in a diner or inexpensive restaurant in the 1950s often brought a “hottle” (as in the linked photograph)of coffee or hot water nested perfectly in the familiar diner-style heavy white china hemispherical cup & saucer, usually with a paper or plastic lid. The arrangement delivered about two cups of coffee efficiently and allowed the patron to keep it hot.