单词 | quarter pipe |
释义 | quarter pipen.1 Now historical and rare. A measure of wine equal to one quarter of a pipe (cf. pipe n.2 2). Also: a cask having a capacity of one quarter of a pipe. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor jubbec1386 hogshead1390 justc1400 keel1485 muida1492 tree1513 quarter pipe?1763 cistern1815 wood1822 ox-head1888 the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for wine wine-barrelc950 wine-bottlec950 wine-bowlc950 wine boxc950 wine-buttc950 wine-canc950 wine-caskc950 wine-cupc950 wine-decanterc950 wine-flaskc950 wine-jarc950 wine jugc950 wine-tunc950 wine-vesselc950 pipe1314 lake1382 ampullaa1398 wine-pot14.. butt1418 stick1433 vinagerc1440 rumneya1475 fust1481 pece1594 sack-butt1599 fudder1679 Shaftesbury1699 wine glass1709 quarter pipe?1763 leaguer1773 porron1845 solera1863 octave1864 wine fountain1889 yu1904 lei1929 papsak1999 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > of wine rood1495 ingestar1611 steifkin1617 fudder1679 quarter pipe?1763 ?1763 Hist. Good Town Edinburgh, 1583–1763 15 The Lords..were of Opinion, that the selling of Wine in Cask as it came home, yea though a Quarter-pipe, was Wholesale; and that the selling out in Pints, Mutchkins, &c. was retailing. 1811 Times 29 May 1/5 (advt.) Fine old West India Madeira per pipe 112l., half pipe 57l., quarter pipe 29l. 1879 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 Nov. 1/7 (advt.) The finest sherry wine..in..tall pipes, and quarter pipes. 1892 A. D. Vandam Englishman in Paris II. xii. 266 Nor is ordinary wine much dearer than it was in years of great plenty... I am comparing prices for quarter pipes, containing from two hundred and ten to two hundred and thirty litres. 1999 Time (Nexis) 22 Nov. 68 By 1822 he had sufficient confidence in his winemaking skills to submit a quarter-pipe (about 37 gal.) of red wine for assessment. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quarter pipen.2 In Skateboarding and similar sports. A concave ramp or bank, the steep upward curve of which resembles a quarter of a pipe in cross-section when viewed from the side. Cf. half-pipe n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun] > place or track skatepark1976 slalom1976 quarter pipe1978 vert1979 1978 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 12 Dec. 15/1 The group needs $600 for the purchase of a quarter and half pipe for skateboarding. 1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 July c1 Osborn pedals toward an 8½-foot-high concave ramp, known as a quarter pipe. 1996 Plow Snowboarding Mag. Dec. 74/1 We built a gap jump and shaped a quarter pipe of the backside of the 20–foot snow plow piles. 2002 J. Weyland Answer is Never ix. 120 They built a quarter-pipe in Riverside Park with wood stolen from a West Side Highway construction site. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1?1763n.21978 |
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