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单词 water bushel
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water bushel
h. Forming names of measures of capacity used in water measure (see water measure n.), as water bushel, water firlot, water peck, etc. See also water met n. at Compounds 7, water-pound at pound n.1 1b. Now historical.
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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 90 Norma, wæterpund.
a1311 in Rec. Trial Walter Langeton (1969) 130 Quinquaginta carratis plumbi videlicet Waterfother.
1471–2 Aberdeen Acct. f. 3, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattir The said Recherd sall mak cownt for the smaw custum & the watter bow.
1582 in M. B. Johnston & C. M. Armet Minute Bks. Burgh Kirkcudbright (1939) I. 172 Tuentie waltir bolls salt.
1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. B4 A water Bushell, that is 5 peckes of Spanish salt, will salt a barrell of Herrings.
1655 in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scotl. (1878) III. 402 The water firlot for bear and oattis.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 102 Potatoes..from 1s. 2d. to 1s. 4d. per water peck, which is a measure of about fourteen Scots pints.
1881 H. W. de Caux Herring iii. 78 A water-bushel, or five pecks, of salt was estimated to cure a barrel of herrings.
2004 R. D. Connor & A. D. C. Simpson Weights & Meas. Scotl. i. vii. 271 Increasing this by a further sixteenth gives the water measure, with a water firlot of 24 pints and a water boll of 96 pints.
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