AtD translation: patent dinner pail

[Jochen Stremmel]

Obviously it's the 1st meaning of the adjective:

adjective
1 |ˈpātnt, ˈpat-| easily recognizable; obvious: she was smiling with patent
insincerity.
2 Medicine |ˈpātnt, ˈpat-| (of a vessel, duct, or aperture) open and
unobstructed; failing to close.
• (of a parasitic infection) showing detectable parasites in the tissues or
feces.
3 |ˈpatnt| [ attrib. ] made and marketed under a patent; proprietary:
patent milk powder.

But I'm not sure that there didn't exist dinner pails that were patented.





2017-12-29 5:06 GMT+01:00 L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net>:

> I read that to mean a “real” dinner pail instead of a container that would
> do the job, but not an actual or patented dinner pail. Sometimes the word
> “patented” is used to indicate “real” or “authentic”.
>
>
> > On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > P27.31-35   “Dally, ya little weasel,” Merle greeted her, “the corn
> liquor’s all gone, I fear, it’ll have to be back to the old cow juice for
> you, real sorry,” as he went rummaging in a patent dinner pail filled with
> ice. The child, meanwhile, having caught sight of the Chums in their summer
> uniforms, stood gazing, her eyes wide, as if deciding how well behaved she
> ought to be.
> >
> > Is a "patent dinner pail" a dinner pail with patent leather on the
> outside? Or more likely, glossy like patent leather?
> >
> >
>
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