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 (šakʻari glux)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖塔 (tángtǎ), 塔糖 (tǎtáng)

• 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
• Ingrian: pääsaahkara
• 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)
• Malay: gula jantung
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkertopp (no) m

  Nynorsk: sukkertopp m

• Persian: کله‌قند (kalle-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)

See also

• loaf sugar
• sugar nips

Anagrams

• loaf sugar