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- noun The start of the fifteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 14:00.
- noun The number one thousand four hundred.
- noun The year 1400.
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Gammerstang commented on the word fourteen hundred
(interjection) - The cry uttered on the London Stock Exchange when the presence of a stranger is detected. It is supposed to be derived from the fact that the number of members of the exchange was, for long, limited to 1399.
--Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
January 21, 2018