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▪ I. Newcastle1
(ˈnjuːkɑːs(ə)l, -æ-; also with main stress on second syllable)
[Name of a city (in full Newcastle upon Tyne) in the north of England.]
1. Phr. to carry coals to Newcastle: see coal n. 13.
2. Used attrib. in various special collocations: Newcastle brown, a strong brown ale; Newcastle disease, an infectious, often fatal, virus disease of poultry, first recorded in Britain near Newcastle in 1927 and characterized by lethargy followed by paralysis and difficulty in breathing; also called fowl pest; Newcastle glass, a type of colour-free glass manufactured in Newcastle; also ellipt.; Newcastle pottery, a type of coarse pottery manufactured around Newcastle.
1972J. Wainwright Requiem for Loser ii. 43 A beer?.. There's a can o' Newcastle Brown in the fridge. 1973‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed iii. 29 Pints of lager, heavy beer and bottles of Newcastle Brown were ordered.
1927T. M. Doyle in Jrnl. Compar. Path. & Therapeutics XL. 144 In order to facilitate description we propose to refer to it [sc. a virus disease of fowls] as ‘Newcastle disease’. 1938Poultry Keepers' Year Book 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. 1955Sci. News Let. 21 May 326/3 Newcastle disease virus, cause of a frequently fatal epidemic in poultry..can also cause eye inflammation in humans. 1968New Scientist 5 Dec. 561/1 The infection—the dreaded Newcastle disease—is normally so lethal to chickens that a strict quarantine is imposed on imported poultry. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Jan. 35/5 Vaccination of hens against Newcastle disease is being urged by the B.C. Poultry Commissioner.
1767in Sc. Nat. Dict. (1968) VII. 17/1 All the windows to be glazed with Newcastle crown glass, bedded and back⁓pottied, and all hung with paces. 1779Cowper Let. 26 May in Corr. (1904) I. 153, 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 and hothouses. 1883J. 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. 1923H. 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. In 1691 Newcastle cut window-glass was sold at 13s. per 100 feet. 1965P. 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. 1972Country Life 28 Dec. 1783/2 The great rarities in this sale were two Dutch engraved Newcastle glasses of the mid-18th century.
1874L. W. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 40 The principal marks on Sunderland and Newcastle pottery are (stamped in the clay or printed in transfer). 1971R. C. Bell Tyneside Pottery ii. 95/2 The Willett Collection in the Brighton Museum contains two rare earthenware mugs marked ‘Newcastle Pottery’.
▪ II. Newcastle2
The title of Henry Pelham-Clinton, fifth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1811–64), used as the name of a classical scholarship at Eton College, established by him in 1829. Also attrib.
1832Eton College Mag. 25 June 7 It was on the second of April..that we went up for the last Newcastle scholarship. 1845J. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. ii. 46 Do not distress yourself about this unfortunate failure as to the Newcastle. 1875H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Eton College xix. 369 One Newcastle Scholar is elected annually after a competitive examination open to Oppidans and Collegers alike. 1879C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum ii. xxiv. 484 But you did like Eton so, and you were going to get the Newcastle and the Prince Consort's Prize. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 5 Nov. (1972) II. 725 Dined at Dilke's—Chamberlain, Sir L. Playfair, Lord Advocate, L. Lawson, Romer, and Kennedy (the Newcastle Scholar of my day). 1922S. Leslie Oppidan vii. 83, I would rather get the Newcastle than make a century at Lord's. 1953H. Nicolson Diary 3 Jan. (1968) 236, I feel as if I had got a fourth prize in scripture when I should have liked the Newcastle. 1959Chambers's Encycl. V. 422/1 The classical tradition in Eton education, strengthened by the institution of the Newcastle scholarship in 1829, remains strong to-day. 1975Times 18 Oct. 7/5 My [sc. Harold Macmillan's] brother Daniel had won the Newcastle at Eton. |