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glas

“glas” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. glass (substance)
  2. glass (drinking vessel)
  3. bells, a mark given by the bells of a ship every half hour to mark the passing of time during a four-hour watch. There were eight bells per watch and then the counting started from the beginning.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

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