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Anker
noun · 78% connection
A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine ga…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Barleycorn
noun · 78% connection
Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Boll
noun · 78% connection
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Bushel
noun · 78% connection
A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Chaldron
noun · 78% connection
An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. No…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Converse
noun · 78% connection
A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Coomb
noun · 78% connection
A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Eking
verb · 78% connection
The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Engrain
verb · 78% connection
To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Equal
adjective · 78% connection
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Fanega
noun · 78% connection
A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Firkin
noun · 78% connection
A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Firlot
noun · 78% connection
A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Fritillaria
noun · 78% connection
A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Melea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Gallery
adjective · 78% connection
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
Grain
noun · 78% connection
The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, grain, equal, 7218, imperial.
