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‖ vedro
Also 8 wedro.
[Russ. vedró pail.]
A Russian liquid measure equal to 2.7 imperial gallons.
1753Hanway Trav. vi. lxxxi. (1762) I. 371, 8 Krushquas, 1 wedro—13 english quarts. 1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 523 The greater part was then already podraded (contracted) for at 148 kopecks for every vedro. 1802–3tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) I. 234 Boiled in large kettles containing from forty to forty-three Russian vedros, or eimers, of water. 1833R. Pinkerton Russia 77 The..distilleries..issue about twenty-five millions of vedros. 1907Edin. Rev. Jan. 224 The peasants of that province..drank this year 62,924 vedros of vodka more than last. |