单词 | half piece |
释义 | > as lemmashalf piece half piece n. an object which is half the size, weight, value, etc., of a full or usual piece (esp. of cloth); spec. (the value of) a coin worth half of a standard denomination. Π 1448 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall No. A.74.8r (MED) An half of the seid troy weyght ffor ix bales ffustyans callid Osburghs, euery bale conteynyng xlv half pecis ffustyans. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxviijv/1 A balle bultell conteyneth xxxvi half pecis. 1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxvii. 186 He gave me the sight likewise of pieces of eight, half pieces, and quarter pieces. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 Oct. 3/5 40 bales Madras Goods, as follows:—Comboys, whole and half pieces, Niccanees, Succatoons, Mooreas, Salempores, entitled to debenture. 1913 L. F. Salzman Eng. Industries Middle Ages x. 188 The list of standard measures [for ale] kept at Beverley in 1423 shows a potell, quart, pint, and gill of pewter, panyers, hopir, modius, firthindal, piece, and half-piece of wood. 1986 J. E. Stambaugh & D. L. Balch New Test. in Social Environment iii. 80 The as [sc. a Roman coin] was broken down into a half piece (the semis) and quarter piece (the quadrans). < as lemmas |
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