gowpen

/ˈɡaʊpən/

Etymology

From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.

noun

  1. A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.“it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]”