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A liquid measure used for Rhenish wine, equivalent to some fraction of a barrel or cask. Cf. aum, n. Obsolete.
A measure of wine equal to one quarter of a pipe (cf. pipe, n.2 2). Also: a cask having a capacity of one quarter of a pipe.