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单词 lagen
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lagenn.

Forms: Also 1500s laggon, 1600s, 1800s lagan.
Etymology: < Latin lagōna, lagēna, flagon, < Greek λάγυνος.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlagen.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A liquid measure (see quots.).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niv/2 A Laggon, lagena.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. P2v/1 Clerk of the market..is an officer..whose dutie is to take charge of the kings measures..as of elns, yards, lagens.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Lagen..a measure of six Sextaries.
1841 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1879) I. 237 With an obligation to sell their ale to the abbott at the rate of a lagen and a half for a penny.
1891 J. Tait Two Cent. Border Ch. Life II. 218 The lagan was equal to 7 quarts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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