sugar-loaf
See also: sugarloaf and sugar loaf
English
several sugar-loaves (blocks of refined sugar) of various sizes
Alternative forms
Noun
sugar-loaf (plural sugar-loaves)
- (historical) A block of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone, in which form it was traditionally exported from the Caribbean and Brazil from the 17th century to the 19th century.
- (obsolete) A hat shaped like a sugar-loaf.
- 1607, Thomas Dekker; John Webster, Westward Ho:
- why, do not I know you, grannam? and that sugar-loaf?
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Derived terms
- sugar-loaf bonnet
- sugar-loaf button
- sugar-loaf cabbage
- sugar-loaf cap
- sugar-loaf cornea
- sugar-loaf crown
- sugar-loaf eminence
- sugar-loaf hat
- sugar-loaf head
- sugar-loaf hill
- Sugarloaf Mountain
- sugar-loaf page
- sugar-loaf pine
- sugar-loaf pippin
- sugar-loaf rock
- sugar-loaf sea
- sugar-loaf-shape
- sugar-loaf stone
- sugar-loaf-stump
- sugar-loaf tool
- sugar-loaf yew
Translations
conical block of sugar
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