单词 | hog round |
释义 | hog roundn.adv. U.S. 1. Various cuts of pork, bought or sold together as a lot. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts pig's footc1475 hog's foot1561 hog's cheek1573 bald-rib1598 spring1598 list1623 griskin1699 chine1712 pork griskin1725 rearing1736 pork chop?1752 hand1794 faggot1815 hog round1819 sweet-bone1826 butt1845 pig trotter1851 pork belly1863 Hodge1879 fore-end1906 fore-hock1923 1819 Amer. Farmer 1 142 Bacon the hog round, 12 to 13 [dollars]. 1835 Louisville Publ. Adv. 14 Feb. 8000 lbs bulk pork, hog round..for sale. 1886 Harper's Mag. July 206/2 Lard, made from hog-round, say head, gut, leaf, and trimmings. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 189 Hams, shoulders and middlings have different prices, but when taken altogether at one price, it is so much hog-round. 1919 J. R. Mohler & A. Eichhorn tr. R. Edelmann Text-bk. Meat Hygiene (ed. 4) xix. 414 Hog Rounds.—Three-quarters to one and one-half inches in diameter, stuff 60 to 62 pounds of meat to the round. 2. In extended use. A lot consisting of mixed grades of cotton. Frequently attributive and as adv., with reference to the system of trading cotton in such lots at average prices based on sampling. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods merceryc1300 mercery ware1377 haberdasha1529 small ware1567 tailory1610 dry goods1657 woollen-drapery1688 soft goods1798 wallflower1804 linendrapery1849 hog round1910 1910 Hearings before Comm. on Agric. (House of Representatives, U.S. 61st Cong. 2nd Sess.) II. 385 Mr. Burleson. Certainly not. I sell my cotton frequently in what is termed, colloquially— Mr. Neville. Hog-round? Mr. Burleson. Hog-round. I sell it hog-round. 1915 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 311 10 If he be compelled to buy the cotton unclassed, or in a ‘hog round’ lot, of which perhaps 25 per cent may not be suitable for his needs, that amount of cotton has to be stored and disposed of in some other way. 1943 E. E. Gallahue Some Factors Devel. Market Standards (Catholic Univ. Amer. Stud. in Econ. Vol. 9) iii. 83 Purchases and sales in terms of pile, bundle, handful, or ‘hog-round’ are attended by a multiplicity of uncertainties. 2003 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 63 453 Cotton was generally sold in small local markets on the ‘hog-round’ or ‘on point’ system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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