单词 | chopin |
释义 | chopinn.Thesaurus » Categories » a. ‘A French liquid measure containing nearly a pint of Winchester’ (Johnson), i.e. half an Old French pinte. b. A Scottish liquid measure, equal to a Scottish half-pint, or about a quart of English wine-measure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > two pints or quart chopin1275 quarta1382 wine-quart1660 qt.1664 Winchester quart1742 reputed quart1787 1275 in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1860) III. 432 Mensuræ quæ vocantur ‘schopinas’ et ‘gilles’. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Kings vii. 26 (margin) A sextarie is as a chopyn of Pariys. 1426 Sc. Act Jas. I (1597) §70 Twa gallownes and a halfe, and a choppen of the auld mette. 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. C2v Meate was brought and layd by him, and a choppin of wine (for so they call it there). 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chopine, a chopine; or the Parisien halfe pint; almost as big as our whole one. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxxviii. 59 My Landlord..brought up a chopin of Whitewine. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 18 They..call for a chopine of two-penny. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 215 A chopin (two English pints) of new milk. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xxii. 217 On this night..they hae a chappin. 1837 in Fifesh. Advert. 21 Sept. (1888) 4/5 6½ bolls of meal, 3 chopins of milk. c1850 G. Millswood New Fam. Receipt Bk. 57 One teaspoonful of this liquid to a choppin of water. c. attributive. ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 181 Out of ane chopin stoip Thai drank tua quartis. 1749 Lett. in Soc. Life former Days (1865) A man was to go into a chopin bottle, and there play on the fiddle. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. I. 160 Chopin bottles were sold at 4s. 6d. per dozen. DerivativesΚΠ 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xviii. 81 Chopining and plying the pot. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxx. 201 We tipled and chopined together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > see alsoalso refers to : chopinechopinn. < n.1275 see also |
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