单词 | chaldron |
释义 | chaldronn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > cauldron or kettle kettlea700 leada1100 cauldronc1300 chetelc1300 stewc1305 chaldron1555 bashron1660 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel in which liquid is boiled > [noun] > cauldron leada1100 cauldronc1300 welling-lead1371 chaldron1555 witch's cauldron1762 set-pot1839 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 191 A chauderne of water. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 259 The tunnel or mouth of the furnace must be a good way off from the lead and chawdron. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vi. 137 Fill up the Chalderon with faire water. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 248 The juice..is boiled first in a very large copper or chaldron. 2. A dry measure of 4 quarters or 32 bushels; in recent times only used for coals (36 bushels). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > thirty-two-forty bushels or chaldron chalder1570 chaldron1615 coal measure1662 1615 R. Kayll Trades Increase 11 Chauldron of coales. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 27 July (1971) IV. 223 This afternoon came my great store of Coles in, being ten Chaldron. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 73. ⁋16 All such that shall Poll for Sir Arthur..shall have one Chaldron of good Coals..And half a Chaldron to every one that shall not Poll against him. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 28 36 bushels, heaped up, make a London chaldron of coals, the weight of which is 3156lb Avoirdupois. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. xii. 296 Lime..from 6s. to 18s. per chaldron of 36 bushels. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit liv. 615 She had laid in several chaldrons of live coals, and was prepared to heap them on the heads of her enemies. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 13 The Newcastle chaldron is a measure containing 53 cwt. of coals..It has been found, by repeated trials, that 15 London Pool chaldrons are equal to 8 Newcastle chaldrons. ΚΠ 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iii. iv. 155 The Gentlemen reckon their reuenewes, not by rents of monie, but by chauldrons of victuals. 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 138 Valued at three hundred chaldrons. Compounds chaldron-wagon n. ΚΠ 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham at Chaldron The content of the chaldron waggon..is 217,989 cubic inches. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 116 Chaldron-wagons, containing this quantity, convey the coal from the pit to the place of shipment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1555 |
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