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Unit of measurement of volume
The nipperkin is a unit of measurement of volume, equal to one-half of a quarter-gill, one-eighth of a gill, or one thirty-second of an English pint.
Nipperkin
Small bottle of an alcoholic beverage
the Northeastern United States they are often known as nips (short for nipperkin), shooters, or singles and referred elsewhere as airplane bottles or mini-bar
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Sodium endmember of the plagioclase feldspar series
"Cleavelandite". www.mindat.org. "Associated minerals". www.mindat.org. Nipperkin, Pao. Loose Gemstone Guide – Secrets of the Gem Revealed. "Uses of albite"
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Simple song form with repetitive and linked verses
mow Oh the pint pot, half a pint, gill pot, half a gill, quarter gill, nipperkin, and a round bowl Here's good luck, good luck, good luck to the barley
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Units of measure for alcoholic drinks
the Middle Ages. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. "Nipperkin". World Wide Words: Investigating the English language across the globe
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or a glass of an alcoholic beverage actually comes from the rare term nipperkin [small measure], a folk etymology has that it originally referred to a
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Obsolete units of measurement formerly used in Scotland
beans 280 pounds; Oats 264 pounds; Barley 320 pounds; Oatmeal 140 pounds. Nipperkin was also used, but perhaps not part of this more formal set. Weight was
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Topics referred to by the same term
(alcohol), colloquially "nip", a 50-60 mL liquor bottle. Nip, short for nipperkin, a Dutch unit measurement for liquor, approximately 59-71 mL. Nippy Nip/Tuck
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sold for 1 shilling. The following is the entry for the letter O: Odds Nipperkins! cried Mother Bunch on her broomstick, here’s a to do! as Nicholas Hotch-Potch
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English actor
reputation. Tate Wilkinson praises his Lenitive in "The Prize" and his Nipperkin in "The Sprigs of Laurel," and says that as Mr. Tag in "The Spoil'd Child"
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Unregulated volume units still in use
(dame-jeanne) goblet pitcher gyllot (about equal to 1/2 gill) noggin (1/4 pint) nipperkin (measure for liquor, containing no more than 1/2 pint) tumblerful (10
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Mrs. Wiggins, Somno in The Sleep Walker (Walley Chamberlain Oulton), Nipperkin in Sprigs of Laurel, or the Rival Soldiers (John O'Keeffe), Nehemiah Flam
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