| 单词 | great hundred |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat hundred great hundred n. (a) a ‘long hundred’, 120 (abbreviated great C); (b) 112 (the number of pounds in a hundredweight). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > hundred and twenty great hundreda1450 long hundred1683 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiii. l. 450 (MED) Not passeng Of Men Six score Be þe grete hundred, lasse ne more. a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 18 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV The trewe C is vxx [sc. 5 times 20]..but and a man mak in hys couenawnt to haue the gret hondrythe and xxi for xx, then he most haue vixx and vi for the C. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 13 §12 The nomber of the C. of shepe..in some countrey the great C where .vj. Score is accompted for the C. 1684 N.H. Compleat Tradesman xiii. 59 At 4 d. 3 q. the Pound, what is that the great Hundred? Look in the Table for 4 d. 3 q. in the first Colume, and against it in the second, you shall find 2 l. 4 s. 4 d. and so much will 112 l. cost. 1799 J. Fuller Hist. Berwick upon Tweed iv. 253 Calf-skins, salt and dried, of strangers, outwards, by the great hundred—0 0 6. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 112 120 Ells, or one great hundred. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. x. 171 The hundred yards of canvas are the great hundred of 120. 1903 World's Work Sept. 358/1 A tax of 10d. per great hundred, and of 5 per cent, on poultry, would yield a gross revenue of £788,771 and £48,953 respectively. 1944 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ in Irish Times 8 Dec. 3/7 With every export of beast, man and great hundred of eggs, we were permanently expatriating a quantum of the essential constituents of the Irish earth. great (also long) hundred 3. In the sale of various commodities, often used for a definite number greater than five score; see quots.: esp. great (also long) hundred (usually) = six score, or a hundred and twenty. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > definite or indefinite certainc1374 quantitya1425 hundred1469 standard1545 'n1828 N1858 known1877 1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 102 Salt fishe for Lent..at 204 [sic, but ? error] to the hundred. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 13 §12 The nomber of the C. of shepe..in some countrey the great C where .vj. Score is accompted for the C. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) 61 Of somme manner of fish the hundred containeth six score, and of some other sort, nine score. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 260/2 Ling, Cod, or Haberdine, have 124 to the Hundred. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Deal Boards are six Score to the Hundred, call'd the long Hundred. 1813 Q. Rev. 9 279 To take from ten to twenty thousand mackerel a-day at a price not exceeding ten shillings the hundred of six score, or a penny a-piece. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 16 Fresh herrings are sold from the vessel by the long hundred (130). 1886 Glasgow Her. 13 Sept. 4/2 A mease [of herring]..is five hundreds of 120 each. < as lemmas |
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