0 a unit for measuring liquids, one-eighth of a gallon (in Britain, 0.57 litre; in the United States, 0.47 litre) -- pain
a pint of milk/beer.
Surely they could deny themselves that, or maybe the father a couple of pints of beer, to give their child milk.
I consume alcohol hardly at all, but two pints of milk per day has been my habit for many years past.
Every day, about 1.5 million pints of beer are smuggled.
The fact is that four not-so-large glasses of claret are roughly equivalent to two pints of beer, which give a reading of 73.
Neither is the foreign visitor when he has found that we sell things in pints instead of litres.
I have no evidence at present to suggest that it would be desirable to provide also that they should contain only pints and half pints.
Every day 40,000 pints of low-alcohol and nonalcoholic drinks are drunk.
The only measures for milk that were made legal were the half-pints and the pints.
