forty-five
a. the Forty-five: the year 1745, and the Jacobite rebellion of that year. b. Card-playing. A game in which each trick counts five and the game is forty-five. Also forty-fives. c. A revolver of ·45 calibre. U.S. d. A 45 r.p.m. 7-inch microgroove gramophone record; also written 45.
| a. 1832 Scott Redgauntlet ch. xi, Ye have heard of a year they call the forty-five. 1895 D. Marshall in Scot. Antiq. X. 77 In the 'Forty-five, Burleigh Castle..was garrisoned for King George. |
| b. 1875 Wood & Lapham Wait. Mail 32 The others..gathered round the table to enjoy the Irish game of ‘forty-fives’. |
| c. 1881 G. W. Romspert Western Echo 285 We now used the six-shooters,—known as forty-fives,—and which were also deadly weapons. 1926 J. Black You can't Win iii. 21 He owned the latest pattern of repeating rifle and a couple of ‘forty-fives’. |
| d. [1949 Gramophone Nov. 108/2 Single, double and treble speed motors fitted with heavy non-magnetic turntables, suitable for high fidelity reproduction of 78, 45 and 331/3 r.p.m. records.] 1950 Ibid. Dec. 162/2, I have had an opportunity of hearing the Rachmaninov No. 2 and the Tchaikovsky No. 1 Pianoforte Concerto on these 45 discs. 1968 R. Clapperton No News on Monday vii. 82, I did a forty-five for Sunny Coast Records once that had as much impact as a handful of sand. |