Dan(t)zig
(ˈdænzɪg, -tsɪg)
Name of a city (now Gda{nacu}sk) near the mouth of the Vistula and of the district containing that city, used attrib. chiefly to designate kinds of timber grown in that district, as Dantzig deal, Dantzig fir, Dantzig oak. Dantzig beer, a black syrupy beer made at Dantzig; Dantzig spruce, beer made by adding a decoction of the buds or cones of spruce.
| a 1592 Greene Fr. Bacon (1594) sig. D3, All the westerne kings That lie alongst the Dansick seas. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi ii. liii. 524 Of Cowcumbers there are diuers sorts... The Dantsicke kinde beareth but small fruit, growing on short branches or runners: the pickled Cowcumbers that are vsually sold are of this kind. 1720 J. Steuart Letter-Bk. (1915) 122 Two small caves with best double strong Dantzig waters. 1843 Ainsworth's Mag. IV. 327 Having..laughed as frequently at the bottle of transparent ‘Dantzic’. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Black-beer, or Dantzic. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 334/2 It [sc. the Norway spruce fir] is the..Danzig Deal of the market. 1871 S. T. Aveling Carpentry & Joinery 9 The weight of a cubic foot of English oak generally considered seasoned is about 50 lb... Of Dantzic oak about 48. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 223/2 The well-known ‘Danzig-spruce’ is prepared by adding a decoction of the buds or cones to the wort or saccharine liquor before fermentation. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. 111 The wood employed [for decks] is generally Dantzic fir. 1945 [see goldwasser]. |