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单词 yard of clay
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yard of clay
c. yard of ale, etc., a deep slender glass for liquor, or the amount of liquor contained in it. yard of clay ( clay yard), a long clay tobacco-pipe. yard of satin (slang), a glass of gin (see satin n. 5). yard of tin, a coachman's horn.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > clay-pipe > long
churchwarden's pipe1832
churchwarden1840
long clay1841
yard of clay1842
churchwarden pipe1860
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > in vessel
pot1583
wassail-bowl1606
pottle1632
gyle-ker1775
yard of ale1872
yard-glass1882
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > specific quantity of
cue1603
cee1605
jug?1635
gun1674
ale kilderkin1704
swank1726
nip1736
pint1742
pt.1850
yard of ale1872
square1882
half1888
butcher1889
rabbit1895
rigger1911
sleever1936
tank1936
middy1941
tallboy1956
tube1969
tinnie1974
society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > post-horn
post-horna1652
yard of tin1903
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > post
post-horna1652
mail horn1850
yard of tin1903
1828 W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry iii. vi Log. The haberdasher is..the spirit-merchant,..and tape the commodity he deals in..white is Max, and red is Cognac. Jerry. Then give me a yard and a half of red.]
1842 Punch 2 23 His Highness condescendingly indulged in a pot of half-and-half and a yard of clay.
1866 Lond. Misc. 19 May 235/2 The stolidity of a mynheer smoking his clay yard.
1872 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. X. 49 At the annual Vinis, or feast, of the mock corporation of Hanley (Staffordshire), the initiation of each member, in 1783, consisted in his swearing fealty to the body, and drinking a yard of wine—i.e., a pint of port or sherry out of a glass one yard in length.
1899 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 3 97/1 The (disused and probably illegal) ‘yard’ of ale. This is a measure a yard long, holding, I should fancy, more than a pint.
1902 Tatler 8 Jan. 52 A ‘Yard of Ale’ Glass. It is 38 in. high and contains two pints of ale.
1903 C. G. Harper Stage-coach & Mail I. xii. 279 That instrument [sc. the key-bugle] came over from Germany in 1818, and for a time pretty thoroughly displaced the old ‘yard of tin’ the earlier guards had blown so lustily.
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