Loaf
[ləʊf] or [lof]
Definition
(noun.) a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; 'meat loaf'; 'sugar loaf'; 'a loaf of cheese'.
Editor: Maris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Inputed by Celia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [Colloquial.] Lounge, be idle, idle away one's time.
Typed by Annette
Definition
n. a regularly shaped mass of bread: a mass of sugar: any lump:—pl. Loaves (lōvz).—n. Loaf′-sug′ar refined sugar in the form of a cone.—Loaves and fishes temporal benefits the main chance for one's self—from John vi. 26.
v.i. to loiter pass time idly.—n. Loaf′er.—adj. Loaf′erish.
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some milk, when there is any, overnight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The cherubic pocket-knife, with the first bit of the loaf still on its point, lay beside them where it had been hastily thrown down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I kept another small loaf, and a modicum of cheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make my supper on when I came back at night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again--these three white little loaves are for Monsieur Rigaud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What Edison in Florida speaks of as loafing would be for most of us extreme and healthy activity in the cooler Far North. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Men talked, and loafed, and read, and smoked. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Wolfgang