marine n.
1. (Aus./N.Z.) a pint bottle of beer [backform. f. dead marine under dead adj.] .
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 23 Dec. 4/7: A bottle-gatherer thumped Sheol out of his tart for not turning up a live marine she’d found. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Eng. as it is Spoken in N.Z.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 89: A quart bottle of beer is a rigger, and a pint bottle a marine: doubtless neither of these terms is peculiar to New Zealand, but they are rarely, if ever, heard in England. |
2. see dead marine under dead adj.
In compounds
(Aus.) a bottle merchant’s base, where empties are stored.
| Advertiser (Adelaide) 13 Apr. 9/5: I did the rounds of a ‘marine yard,’ as a bottle merchant likes to call his headquarters. |