† beakmentn.
Obsolete or dialect.
‘A measure of about a quarter of a peck.’ Halliwell.
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1673 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 194 She gott a beakment of wheat flower.
1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 252 The Farrier's cap Blew off..Into a huckster's shop it went—Now Martin's cap's a tatie beatment.
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