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单词 sester
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sestern.

/ˈsɛstə/
Forms: Also Middle English cestre, sesster, sextier, 1500s cester, sestur.
Etymology: Old English sester (also seoxter ) and Anglo-Norman sester = Old French sestier < Latin sextārium sextar n., sextary n.Compare Old Saxon soster , suster , Dutch sester , sister , Middle Low German sestere , Old High German sehtari and sextari (Middle High German sehtere and sehstere , German sechter , sester ). See also setier n.
Now historical.
1. A vessel for holding liquid; in Old English a jar, pitcher; in Middle English ? a brewing-vat. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > vat or vessel for brewing or fermenting
ale fateOE
sesterc1000
bruthen-leadc1275
kimnel1335
tine1337
gyle-fat1341
yeast-fat1367
brew-lead1369
coomb?a1400
gyle-tunc1425
brewing-lead1444
brewing vessel1462
work lead1471
lead1504
brewing copper1551
gyle-tub1568
kier1573
batch1697
ale vat1701
working tun1703
tun1713
brewing tub1766
flat1791
round1806
beck1828
gyle1836
tun-tub1842
stone-square1882
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 122/30 Amfora, sester.
c1000 Ælfric Judges vii. 16 Gedeon..het heora ælcne geniman anne æmtigne sester oððe ænne wæterbuc to þam gewinne forð.
1341 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 542 In 2 novis Sestres factis de novo pro bracina, 20d.
1347–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 546 In 2 Cestris novis fact. et ferro ligand. pro bracina, 2s. 10d.
2.
a. A liquid measure for beer, wine, etc.In Old English rendering Latin modius, cadus, metreta, and sextarius.
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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 > sester
sester909
sestern1421
sextern1425
909 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 158 Twelf seoxtres beoras.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 6 Stænino fatto..niomende syndrige sestras tuoege uel ðrea [Ags. Gosp. ælc wæs on twegra sestra gemete oððe on þreora].
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 92 Twegen sestres sapan, & twege hunies & þre sestres ecedes, & se sester sceal wegan twa pund.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 410 In half a sester [L. heminam] aged wyn do shake.
in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 113 Then yee must goe to the servant of the seller, and warne him to make readie..as many sesteres of wine as yee thinke will serve the people.
1528 Coventry Leet Bk. 696 No bruer..frome-hensfurth shall sell eny ale within this Citie by the Cester aboue ij s.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Demy Sétier,..halfe sester.
b. sester-penny n. Obsolete ? a charge made upon every sester of beer brewed.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on consumable goods > on other consumables
sester-penny1328
granagea1582
malt tax?1699
abkari1790
malt duty1797
1328 in Essex Rev. XIII. 203 Every copieholder that doeth brewe bere or ale to sell, shall paye yerely in the moneth of harvest one penye called Cestre-penye.
3. A dry measure for wheat, etc.In modern use only Historical with reference to Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 1043, On þisum wæs..corn swa dyre..swa þæt se sester hwætes eode to .lx. penega & eac furðor.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > sester
sesterc1050
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 444/4 Mine, healfsester.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 148 A sester and a semycicle take Of senuey seed.
1707 W. Fleetwood Chronicon Preciosum iv. 65 A Sester or Sextarius was what we now call a Quarter, or a Seam, containing 8 Bushels.
a1842 H. Petrie tr. Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1044 in J. A. Giles Venerable Bede's Eccl. Hist. Eng. & Anglo-Saxon Chron. (1847) 417 The sester of wheat went up to sixty pence.]
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