pint
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pint/pʌɪnt/
▶noun a unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to one eighth of a gallon, in Britain equal to 0.568 litre and in the US equal to 0.473 litre (for liquid measure) or 0.551 litre (for dry measure).
■ Brit. informal a pint of beer.
– origin ME: from OFr. pinte, of unknown origin.
'pint' also found in these Oxford entries:
arum
- cuckoo pint
- cup
- fluid ounce
- gill
- go
- half
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- lords and ladies
- millilitre
- noggin
- pint-sized
- Pt
- quartern
- wake-robin
- wild arum
