Usually means: Historical measure for coal capacity.
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  1. chaldron: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaldron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. chaldron: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chaldron: Vocabulary.com
  5. chaldron: Wordnik
  6. chaldron: Wiktionary
  7. chaldron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. chaldron: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Chaldron, chaldron: Dictionary.com
  10. Chaldron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Chaldron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. chaldron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. chaldron: Rhymezone
  14. Chaldron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. chaldron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. chaldron: FreeDictionary.org
  17. chaldron: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. chaldron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. chaldron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Chaldron: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaldron: Encyclopedia

(Note: See chaldrons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chaldron)

noun:  (archaic) An old English dry measure, containing four quarters. At London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
noun:  Alternative form of chawdron [(now historical) A sauce made from chopped entrails.]

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