| 单词 | gill-glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgill-glass C1. General attributive, in sense ‘having a capacity of one gill (sense 1)’, as gill-glass, gill-stoup, etc. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 35 Who..opens her dear bottle of Mirabilis beside, for a Jill-glass of it at parting. 1800 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 1799 III. 349 With a bottle of gin in her right hand, and a gill glass in her left. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 310/1 The change-wife's gill-stoup is full cousin to the spirit-dealer's gallon-pot. 1886 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 9 Feb. 3/7 Crossland came in drunk, and..he threw a gill mug at the settle. 1933 Manch. Guardian 21 Oct. 10/7 You can get a gill pot of ginger pop on draught for one penny. 1974 Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Amer. 16 June (Mississippi Living section) 5 d/3 Quarts, pints, half-pints, gill and half-gill glasses for the special ale of the period. < as lemmas |
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