sugar-loaf

sugar-loaf

See also: sugarloaf and sugar loaf

English

several sugar-loaves (blocks of refined sugar) of various sizes

Alternative forms

• sugar loaf, sugarloaf

Noun

sugar-loaf (plural sugar-loaves)

1. (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.
2. (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?

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 Island
• 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

Armenian: շաքարի գլուխ (šakʿari glux) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: cukrová homole (cs) f, homole cukru f Danish: sukkertop c Dutch: suikerbrood (nl) n Esperanto: sukerbulko Finnish: sokeritoppa (fi) French: pain de sucre (fr) m German: Zuckerhut (de) m, (Switzerland) Zuckerstock m Hebrew: חָרוּט סֻכָּר‎ m (kharút sukár), כִּכָּר סֻכָּר‎ f (kikár sukár) Hungarian: süvegcukor (hu) Ido: sukrolumpo (io), sukrobloko Italian: pan di zucchero m, cono di zucchero m Japanese: 棒砂糖 (ぼうざとう, bōzatō) Kumyk: шекер келле (şeker kelle) Luxembourgish: Zockerhutt m Macedonian: шеќерна глава f (šeḱerna glava) Norwegian: Bokmål: sukkertopp (no) m Nynorsk: sukkertopp m Persian: کله‌قند‎ (kalleh-qand) Polish: głowa cukru f Portuguese: pão-de-açúcar m, pão de açúcar m, pão-d'açúcar m, pão d'açúcar m Spanish: pan de azúcar m Swedish: sockertopp (sv) c Tamil: சர்க்கரைக் கட்டி (carkkaraik kaṭṭi)

Anagrams

• loaf sugar