1552 T. Barnabe Let. 1 Oct. in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) II. 99 Newcastle coals, which without that they [sc. the French] can neither make stele-work, or metal-work, nor wyre-work, nor goldsmith-work.

1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed in Wks. (1630) 66 If the blacke Indians or Newcastle coales Came not in Fleets, like fishes in the sholes.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Sept. (1974) VIII. 426 Nova Scotia, which hath a River 300 miles up the country, with copper mines more then Swedeland and Newcastle coals, the only place in America that hath coals that we know of.

1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 2 Sept. 4/1 To be Sold by Mr. John King,..Silks English and Italian, Newcastle Coals, &c.

1804 Ann. Rev. 2 63 It is remarkable that Newcastle coal should be cheaper than coal carried landways.

1831 Cat's Tail 13 Not a soul Would have known him, I'm sure, from a Newcastle coal.

1912 Amer. Econ. Rev. 2 647 The ‘Limitation of Vends’ for Newcastle coal..was investigated and reported on by several parliamentary committees.

1992 J. Rule Vital Cent. 227 Faversham sent 353 ships in 1728 loaded with the hops and malting barley to be brewed with Newcastle coal.

2003 I. Friel Maritime Hist. Brit. & Ireland iii. 68 Newcastle coal was unloaded in both the east and south coast ports of England, including London, which was probably the biggest domestic market for the coal.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 105 He..allows Newcastle-Ale and Salmon to be the most superlative Diet in the Universe.

1771 J. Cunningham Poems (ed. 2) 150 (title of poem) Newcastle beer.

1890 A. Barnard Noted Breweries Great Brit. & Irel. III. 173 The only product of the [Tyne] brewery was the ancient and popular Newcastle sweet mild ale, a local beer, sweet in flavour and brewed for immediate consumption.

1972 J. Wainwright Requiem for Loser ii. 43 A beer?.. There's a can o' Newcastle Brown in the fridge.

1977 N.Z. Listener 15 Jan. 17/1 Between performances he telephoned his wife in London, pottered around on the golf course, downed Newcastle ale and frequented ‘The Pinocchio’, a Sunderland pizzeria.

2012 G. Oliver Oxf. Compan. Beer 608/1 Newcastle Brown Ale's famous five-pointed blue star logo with its overlaid Newcastle city silhouette represents the five breweries..that combined to form Newcastle Breweries Ltd in 1890.

1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Glass It [sc. French glass] is a thinner and more transparent Glass than our Newcastle Glass.

1754 Contract of Agreem. building Exchange Edinb. (Edinb. Town Council) Wainscot-sashes, with best Newcastle crown-glass, at 3s. 6d.

1779 W. Cowper Let. 26 May (1979) I. 295 I shall be obliged..if you will inquire at a Glass Manufacturer's, how he sells his Newcastle Glass, such as is used for Frames & Hot Houses.

1843 H. W. Herbert Deerstalkers iii. 53 Four tall pint beakers of clear crystal, and four yet more capacious tumblers of New-Castle cut glass.

1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. 225/1 Newcastle glass, a crown glass, held the best for windows from 1728 to 1830... It was of an ash colour,..and frequently warped.

1923 H. J. Powell Glass-making in Pottery vii. 93 In later years John Tyzack's warehouse for Newcastle glass near the Old Swan Stairs was well known.

1961 E. M. Elville Collector's Dict. Glass 142/2 There is no shadow of doubt that the Newcastle style was popular abroad.

1965 P. M. Hubbard Hive of Glass i. 9 It was..[a] quite faultless Newcastle light baluster..ten inches high, the rounded perfect bowl perched on a breathless series of knobs.

1972 Country Life 28 Dec. 1783/2 The great rarities in this sale were two Dutch engraved Newcastle glasses of the mid-18th century.

2009 H. Berry in K. Harvey Hist. & Material Culture vii. 147 The technique of perfecting the inclusion of air bubbles, or 'tear drops', in the knop was also a distinctive feature of Newcastle glass.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy (1830) II. ix. 120 We can buy your north o' England wares, as Manchester wares, Sheffield wares, and Newcastle earthen-ware, as cheap as you can at Liverpool.

1874 L. W. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 40 The principal marks on Sunderland and Newcastle pottery are (stamped in the clay or printed in transfer).

1909 A. Hayden Chats Old Earthenware xiv. 458 There is a Newcastle earthenware butter-dish printed and coloured, with an English soldier greeting a French soldier, and motto, ‘May they ever be united’.

1966 G. A. Godden Illustr. Encycl. Brit. Pottery & Porcelain 162 (caption) Newcastle earthenware plate, decorated with pink lustre formal scene.

1971 R. C. Bell Tyneside Pottery ii. 95/2 The Willett Collection in the Brighton Museum contains two rare earthenware mugs marked ‘Newcastle Pottery’.

2009 Country Life 30 Sept. 86/2 Then,..there is a ‘probably Newcastle Pottery’ pink lustre jug commemorating Grace Darling.

1927 T. M. Doyle in Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 40 144 In order to facilitate description we propose to refer to it [sc. a virus disease of fowls] as ‘Newcastle disease’.

1938 Poultry Keepers' Year Bk. v. 178 Newcastle Disease is notifiable to the Ministry of Agriculture... Recognisable by dribbling from beak and sudden death of many birds at the same time.

1955 Sci. News Let. 21 May 326/3 Newcastle disease virus, cause of a frequently fatal epidemic in poultry..can also cause eye inflammation in humans.

1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Jan. 35/5 Vaccination of hens against Newcastle disease is being urged by the B.C. Poultry Commissioner.

1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Sept. 11/1 The committee..nominated African swine fever, sheep pox and Newcastle disease, which affects poultry, as high priority diseases.

2009 D. J. Alexander in I. Capua & D. J. Alexander Avian Influenza & Newcastle Dis. ii. 24/1 Newcastle disease remains enzootic in poultry or other avian sectors..in many areas of the world.