| 单词 | reputed pint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreputed pint b. Designating a liquid measure equivalent to two-thirds the imperial measure, or the amount of liquid contained by such a measure, as reputed pint, reputed quart. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > pint pint1378 wine-pint1770 reputed pint1787 Paris pint1795 pt.1850 handle1909 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > two pints or quart chopin1275 quarta1382 wine-quart1660 qt.1664 Winchester quart1742 reputed quart1787 1787 Act 24 Geo. III Stat. 36. c. 13 Each of which shall contain at the least three dozen reputed quart bottles or flasks. 1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 44 §2 Packages, each of which shall contain at the least six Dozen reputed Quart Bottles or Flaskes. 1846 Times 1 Aug. 11/3 This genuine ginger brandy may be had in reputed pint and quart bottles. 1873 I. Gregory Brit. Metric Syst. 47 How many metric pints are there in 20 thousand ‘reputed pint’ bottles? 1904 A. Makins Licensed Victuallers' Handbk. (rev. ed.) xiii. 216 Reputed quart means a bottle containing the sixth of a gallon, and a reputed pint a bottle containing the twelfth of a gallon. 1935 A. L. Simon Dict. Wine 172 Methuselah, double Jeroboam, holding 8 reputed quarts or 6·40 litres, equal to 225,350 fluid ounces. 1959 Gloss. Terms Packaging (B.S.I.) 29 The normal bottle of wine should contain 1/ 6 of a gallon..and is known as a ‘reputed quart’... Variants of the above are known as ‘mock quarts’..and may be of less capacity. 1985 Ethnohistory 32 265 In actual liquid measure, a U.S. Pint is equal to 0.473 liter, an Imperial Pint to 0.567 liter, and a Reputed Pint to 0.37 liter. < as lemmas |
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