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forty-five
a. the Forty-five: the year 1745, and the Jacobite rebellion of that year.
b. Card-playing. A game in which each trick counts five and the game is forty-five. Also forty-fives.
c. A revolver of ·45 calibre. U.S.
d. A 45 r.p.m. 7-inch microgroove gramophone record; also written 45.
a.1832Scott Redgauntlet ch. xi, Ye have heard of a year they call the forty-five. 1895D. Marshall in Scot. Antiq. X. 77 In the 'Forty-five, Burleigh Castle..was garrisoned for King George.
b.1875Wood & Lapham Wait. Mail 32 The others..gathered round the table to enjoy the Irish game of ‘forty-fives’.
c.1881G. W. Romspert Western Echo 285 We now used the six-shooters,—known as forty-fives,—and which were also deadly weapons. 1926J. Black You can't Win iii. 21 He owned the latest pattern of repeating rifle and a couple of ‘forty-fives’.
d. [1949Gramophone Nov. 108/2 Single, double and treble speed motors fitted with heavy non-magnetic turntables, suitable for high fidelity reproduction of 78, 45 and 331/3 r.p.m. records.] 1950Ibid. Dec. 162/2, I have had an opportunity of hearing the Rachmaninov No. 2 and the Tchaikovsky No. 1 Pianoforte Concerto on these 45 discs. 1968R. Clapperton No News on Monday vii. 82, I did a forty-five for Sunny Coast Records once that had as much impact as a handful of sand. |