单词 | pigful |
释义 | † pigfuln. Scottish. Obsolete. As much as fills a pig or earthenware pot. Cf. pig n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > pot or pan panfula1325 potfulc1390 pot1530 pigful1590 pan1762 saucepanful1825 billyful1866 1590 Articles against Lady Fowllis in R. Law Memorialls (1818) p. xxviii Sending a pigfull of poyson to the house where young Foullis was. 1608 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 4v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pigful(l Ane pigfull of ink. 1609 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scotl. (1878) 150 For ane pigfull of black cullour. a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 92 A pigful of holy water wt a spung in it. a1835 J. Grant Tales of Glens (1869) 153 My certy, 't would hae been a bit sillier to hae brocht awa' that provokin' pigfu', and gotten mysel' destroyed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1590 |
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