Pint
A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
The laughing gull.
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Pint Quotations
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley
I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.
Charlie Hunnam
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
Stanley Crouch
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
Austin O'Malley
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.
James Lind
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
Boyle Roche
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
Pint Translations
pint in French is pinte
pint in German is Schoppen, Seidel
pint in Hungarian is 473 l us, 0, 0, 568 l gb, pint
pint in Spanish is pinta
pint in Swedish is halvstop
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