Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old English system of measures of capacity.
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Examples
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Ethereally deep as is his sentiment, should we not feel it more if he sometimes gave us a little less of it, -- if he would only not always deal out his wine by beer-measure?
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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