sizings

How to use sizings in a sentence

• Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.

  The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest Weekley

• The breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue (or Q, quartus) of beer; and the evening commons were a pye.

  Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume II (of 2) | Harriet Martineau

• All else are extras, and are included in “sizings” in Cambridge; in Oxford the term is “to battel.”

  Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars | Richard Gooch