Hamburg adjective & noun. ['hambǝ:g] LME.
[A city in northern Germany.]
A. adjective (attrib.).
1. Designating a type of barrel, chiefly used as a measure of salmon. Scot. LME-E16.

2. Designating a variety of parsley grown for its thick edible root like a turnip. L18.

3. Hamburg grape = sense B.1 below. L19.

4. Hamburg steak, a dish composed of flat cakes of chopped lean beef, mixed with beaten eggs, chopped onions, and seasoning, and fried. US. L19.
b. noun.
1. More fully Black Hamburg. A black variety of grape of German origin, specially adapted to hothouse cultivation. M18.

2. A small variety of domestic fowl. M19.

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