gowpen
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) […]
Where it comes from
From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gowpen (CC BY-SA 4.0).