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单词 pint
释义 I. pint1|paɪnt|
Forms: 4–6 pynt(e, 5 pintte, pyynte, 5–7 pinte, 6 Sc. point, poynt(t, 7 Sc. pinct, 6– pint.
[ME. pynte, a. F. pinte a liquid measure (13th c.) = It., Sp., Pg. pinta; so OFries. pint, MDu., MLG., MHG. pinte. Ulterior source uncertain. Diez inclined to think it the same word as Sp. pinta spot, coloured mark:—late L. pincta for picta, something painted or coloured. If so, the Fr. pinte must have been adopted from Sp. (or It.) pinta, since the native Fr. repr. of L. pincta is peinte; but the early history of the measure is as yet unknown. Med.L. pinta found in 14th c. is from the mod. langs.]
a. A measure of capacity for liquids (also for corn and other dry substances of powdery or granular nature), equal to half a quart or 1/8 of a gallon; of varying content at different times and places.
The imperial pint, since 1826 the legal measure in Britain, is equal to 34·66 cubic inches, or ·57 of a litre; in U.S. the standard pint is that of the old wine measure, equal to 287/8 cubic inches, or ·47 of a litre. The old Scotch pint was equal to about 3 imperial pints (104·2 cubic inches). In local use also a weight, e.g. of butter in East Anglia = 11/4lb.
1384Exch. Rolls Scotl. III. 107 De..iiij⊇ vxx iij lagenis et j pynt vini.1432in Muniment. Magd. Coll. Oxf. (1882) 11, ij botellos de corio, unde j de quarte et j de pynte.14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 611/15 Semiquarta, a pynte.c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 201 A pinte of red swynes grece.1523Fitzherb. Husb. §58 Let hym blede the mountenaunce of a pynte.1543Aberdeen Regr. XVIII. (Jam.), Was sald..in Dundy for viij.d. the poyntt.1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 628 Spare at the brimme, lest whilest thou shouldest poure out a pint, there run forth a pottle.1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 207 The rate of no kinde of food is raised, nor the plenty of their markets one pinte of butter rebated.1618Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) 586/1 Twentie ane pincts and ane mutchkin of just Sterline Jug and measure.1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 64, I suppose a pint of Oatmeal equal to half a pint of Rice.1829Glover's Hist. Derby i. 229 The pint [of lead ore] contains forty-eight cubic inches.1840Dickens Old C. Shop xviii, Fetch me a pint of warm ale.
b. A vessel containing a pint; a pint-pot.
c1483Caxton Dialogues 7 Cannes of two stope Pintes and half-pintes.1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 264/1 Put them in a pinte till it be fulle..then close the mouth of the pinte with a cloth verye close.1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II xli, The Rebells enter, and the Apron Men Bid welcome, with their Pints.1872J. Hartley Yorksh. Ditties Ser. ii. 133 It's time for sombdy to stand summat, for all th' pints is empty.1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxii. 194 ‘Good gracious, Julius!’ exclaimed grannie, as he offered the governess a pot full of beer, ‘Miss Craddock can't drink out of that pint.’ ‘Those who don't approve of my pints, let 'em bring their own.’1961H. C. Dodge My Childhood Canad. Wilderness i. 11 We had our meals from tin pints and tin plates, as we never took our china to the woods.1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 10 He..filled a tin mug with tea from a fire-blackened oil tin that served as his billy. With the pint in his hand he sat down again.
c. ellipt. A pint of ale or beer, or other liquor.
1742Fielding J. Andrews I. ii. ii. 142 He wished to find a house of publick Entertainment where he might have dried his clothes and refresh himself with a Pint.Ibid. iii. 144 He had just entered the House, had called for his Pint.1767S. Paterson Another Trav. II. 209 'Ere I had finished my pint.1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. i. 7 He never strolled into the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow.1922Joyce Ulysses 20 The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue of Dedalus.1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands xii. 205 Eventually he had Richards to himself in a corner with a pint.1965V. Canning Whip Hand i. 10, I had a pint with him.1976W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls iv. 86 Middle-aged men whose wildest excess was a couple of pints at the local.
d. attrib. and Comb., as pint-bottle, pint-cup, pint-glass, pint-measure, pint mug, pint-stoup, pint-vessel. See also pint-pot.
1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 295 For ane tyn quart and ane poynt stopes.1633Fife Witch Trial in Statist. Acc. Scot. (1796) XVIII. App. 660 His hand swelled as great as a pint-stoup.1713T. Cave Let. 16 Jan. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) I. xiii. 244 The London Postmaster, who yet swallow'd down a pint glass of Ale to the poor Boy's health.1771Smollett Humph Cl. 8 Aug. Let. i, Mr. Fraser called for pint-glasses.1800J. Woodforde Diary 19 Oct. (1931) V. 279 Miss Emeris sent us a Pint Bottle of Mushrooms.1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 56 Clouded pint-horn with its copper rim.1838Lytton Alice iii. ix, I have no sympathy left for those who creep into the pint-bottle, or swallow the naked sword.1847Dickens Dombey (1848) xxxviii. 380 This profound reflection Mr. Toodle washed down with a pint mug of tea.1856― in Househ. Words 28 June 554/2 Drinking beer out of thick pint crockery mugs.1858Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Phil. 54 If a pint vessel be exactly filled with boiling water, it will be something less than full when it becomes cold.1871Kingsley At Last xi, We sat beneath the shade of a huge Bamboo clump, cut ourselves pint-stoups out of the joints.1922Joyce Ulysses 301 The memory of the dead, says the citizen taking up his pintglass and glaring at Bloom.1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby vi. 51 Binnie gave me coffee in a pint mug.1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 1 Nov. 9/4 By the end they were glad they had not started with pint glasses.1978R. Barnard Unruly Son i. 7 At the end of the bar..was one solitary young man, his eyes concentrated on his pint mug.
II. pint2|paɪnt|
Also p'int.
Repr. a vulg. and dial. (esp. U.S.) pronunc. point n.1
1837Dickens Pickw. xxiii. 238 Upon all little pints o' breedin', I know I may trust you as vell as if it was my own self.1887Scribner's Mag. Oct. 476/2 Jeff looked..p'int blank gashly.1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 50 Pint.., Negro and illiterate white for point.1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxxii. 274 The pens had not enough ‘pint’.1943J. Stuart Taps for Private Tussie xiii. 149 ‘It's wonderful, Uncle George,’ I said. ‘It's pint-blank right,’ Grandma said.1946Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 10 Feb. 8-b/7 The natural sequence of racing between the flags starts with the hunting field, then to point-to-points (gleefully termed ‘pint-to-pints’ by some), continues to the hunt meetings, and finally ends with steeplechasing.
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