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Bottle cutting is an activity in which a person cuts a bottle using one of a variety of techniques, to create a new product. Techniques can include sawing or using hot wire . Around the late 1950s and early 1960s, some restaurants began making glasses by cutting wine bottles .
A glass cutter is a tool used to make a shallow score in one surface of a piece of glass (normally a flat one) that is to be broken in two pieces, for example to fit a window. The scoring makes a split in the surface of the glass which encourages the glass to break along the score. [ 1 ]
As with other glass objects such as glass bottles, pint glasses can be used as a weapon, either smashing an intact glass in a victim's face or smashing the glass and then slashing with the shards. Such attacks, called " glassing ", are a significant problem in the United Kingdom, with over 5,000 injuries per year in 2002. [ 27 ]
An *official* pint glass in the UK is 20oz (fl). Due to the way the law works at a technical level the figure is NOT derived from the metric amount of 568 ml (or thereabouts). This is due to the fact that the unit was not altered by law via the UK or EU (obviously the UK pint may have been different many many years ago prior to any ...
The definition of a pint differs by country, thus a pint glass will reflect the regular measure of beer in that country. In the UK, law stipulates that a serving of beer be fixed at the imperial pint (568 ml ≈ 1.2 US pints). Half-pint glasses of 10 imp fl oz (284 ml) are generally smaller versions of pint glasses.
Unlike the Australian or British schooner, which is smaller than a pint, a Canadian schooner is larger. Although not standardised, the most common size of schooner served in Canadian bars is 33.3 Imp fl oz / 946 ml (32 US fl oz). It is commonly a tankard-shaped glass (dimpled mug shape with handle), rather than a traditional pint glass.
Such milk bottles are no longer officially referred to as pints. However, the "pint glass" in pubs in Australia remains closer to the standard imperial pint, at 570 mL. It holds about 500 mL of beer and about 70 mL of froth, except in South Australia, where a pint is served in a 425 mL glass and a 570 mL glass is called an "imperial pint".
A yard of ale or yard glass is a very tall beer glass used for drinking around 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 imperial pints (1.4 L) of beer, depending upon the diameter. The glass is approximately 1 yard (91.4 cm ) long, shaped with a bulb at the bottom, and a widening shaft, which constitutes most of the height.