† sixtern.
Obsolete. rare.
A certain measure.
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a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxvii. f. xliiii/1 He lyued sobrely; And in thre yere he ete not but onely a syxter of wortes medled in a lytyll colde water.
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