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Hamburg (iou) and latron (iou)


Hamburg (iou)



Hamburg adjective & noun. LME.
[A city in northern Germany.]
A. adjective (attrib.).
Designating a type of barrel, chiefly used as a measure of salmon. Scot. LME-E16.
Designating a variety of parsley grown for its thick edible root like a turnip. L18.
Hamburg grape = sense B.1 below. L19.
Hamburg steak, a dish composed of flat cakes of chopped lean beef, mixed with beaten eggs, chopped onions, and seasoning, and fried. US. L19.
b. noun.
More fully Black Hamburg. A black variety of grape of German origin, specially adapted to hothouse cultivation. M18.
A small variety of domestic fowl. M19.

latron (iou)



latron noun. Long arch. L16.
[Latin latro(n-): see LARCENY. Cf. LADRONE.]
A robber, a brigand.