half-pint

• "Of course the lack of water, except that half-pint or so, to bathe your bruise with, is a rank barbarity. —  Darkness and Dawn
• Pray give him a half-pint of warmish milk with six drops of pure brandy in it. —  Rodney Stone
• Cambridge Club, 'simpering over the QUARTERLY REVIEW, in the blameless enjoyment of his half-pint of port. —  The Book of Snobs
• Stir the gelatine and a full half-pint of grated cocoanut with the cocoanut milk into the custard. —  Choice Cookery
• Mrs. Bangster takes her half-pint of brandy every night for her health's sake, no doubt. —  The Bertrams

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