Dictionary Entry
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pintbottle pintmilk pintbottles pintpint onepint halfpint perpint another
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Poetry examples for “pint”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
Read full poem →By witching skill;
An' dawtit, twal-pint hawkie's gaen
As yell's the bill.
Read full poem →I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
Read full poem →Then went to Ludgate, where they lay,
And each man drank his pint of wine.