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?

Derived terms

Terms derived from sugar-loaf

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

Armenian: շաքարի գլուխ (šakʿari glux)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: cukrová homole 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
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
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 c
Tamil: சர்க்கரைக் கட்டி (carkkaraik kaṭṭi)

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