kemplen.
Scottish ? Obsolete.
A Scottish measure of hay or straw, varying in amount (see quots.).
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1629 MS. Charter (Byrehills, Fife) Et quatuor oneribus equorum straminum vulgariter nuncupatis ffour kimples of stray.
1676 Charter Byrehills, Fife Ffoure kemples of strae.
1706 Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 428 For 7 kemples of strae.
1805 Edinb. Evening Courant 18 July The Kemple of straw must consist of forty windlens..so that the kemple must weigh fifteen stones trone.
1849 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 347 The straw will weigh 9 kemples of 440 lbs. each [In Morton's Cycl. Agric. (1863) given as = 358 lbs. trone.]
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