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(historical) A barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.
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(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
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Short for Brompton boiler. [(UK, slang, obsolete, historical, mostly plural) Any of the buildings comprising the Kensington Museum and School of Art.]
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(Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
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Abbreviation of bushel. (a unit of weight or dry measure) [(historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.]
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(UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
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A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
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A basket that is the right size to hold a bushel.
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(UK, archaic) A duty payable on goods by the bushel.
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A person who packs grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
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Alternative form of buttload [(obsolete, UK, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.]
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Alternative form of buttload [(obsolete, UK, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.]
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(obsolete, UK, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
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(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
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(Philippines, historical, chiefly Manila) A unit of dry capacity approximately equivalent to 2.3 US bushels.
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An old Scottish dry measure, equal to 16 bolls.
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(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.
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A container used for shipping and storing coffee.
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An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
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An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
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A measure of volume or capacity equivalent to that of a cube having unit dimension of one foot; equals 28.32 litres.
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(idiomatic, informal) An excessive quantity.
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An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
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(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
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A weight measure for butter, equalling 56 pounds.
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(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
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Alternative form of gantang [(Malaysia) An imperial gallon.]
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(chiefly Scotland) Enough to fill a gowpen; a double handful.
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(archaic) An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
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The number of bushels of corn equal in value to 100 pounds of live hogs, used by farmers to decide whether it is more lucrative to sell their corn or to feed hogs with it and sell those.
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Alternative spelling of hog-tub [A trough or vat where pigs or other domestic beasts shall drink from, also a place where slaughtered pigs were soaked in boiling water in order that their bristles can be scraped off, sometimes also filled with refuse or used for an other purpose.]
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(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
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A coarse sack for hops, or the quantity it holds: about 1½ cwt.
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A unit of measure of volume equal to 1.273 cubic feet or 2,200 cubic inches. Used in the British Empire as a measure of lumber.
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A measure of two Winchester bushels.
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(brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
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(Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
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(historical) An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
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(historical) An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
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(Ghana) A container, a kind of large metal tin for measuring grains and other items.
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One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
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Alternative form of plethron [(historical units of measure) A former Greek unit of length equal to 100 Greek feet (podes).]
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(figuratively) A small or moderate amount.
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(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol [(historical units of measure) A former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).]
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A small barrel of no certain dimensions, which may contain from 3 to 20 gallons.
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The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
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(historical) An old Dutch measure of volume used for wheat, etc.
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(historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
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(historical) A dry measure for grain, perhaps equal to 12 bushels.
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Alternative form of steekkan [(historical) An old liquid measure used in Amsterdam, approximately 19 litres.]
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(forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
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(historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
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To the last drop, to the bottom.
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A large cowboy hat, not holding ten gallons like the name would suggest but usually around three quarts.
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Alternative spelling of thundermug [(dated, slang) chamber pot]
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(now historical) A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
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(obsolete, dialectal) A measure of capacity, possibly a bushel.
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An old English measure of corn, perhaps equal to ¹⁄₁₂ of a quarter.
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An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
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(law, obsolete, UK) measurement by the ell
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(historical) An old French unit of liquid measure, approximately 7.617 litres.
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Units used for the measurement of dry and liquid volumes, the standards for which were originally deposited at Winchester, England. The Winchester bushel is still used in the US.
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An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
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