OED's Tabard, 4. (?)

Author / Editor
Wright, Laura.

Title
OED's Tabard, 4. (?)

Published
Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 155-57.

Description
Suggests that "tabbard" means "a kind of small leaden tank" for the purpose of holding ale or rainwater.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.