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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dwelling or a messuage.
  2. n. A tale of 500 herrings. Also maze. [Prov. Eng.] A measure or allowance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, dialect, dated five hundred

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. Five hundred.

Etymologies

  1. Compare German Mass measure. (Wiktionary)

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  • reesetee Once used by fishermen as a measure of quantity--a mease equals the number of herring in a basket, roughly 620. Nov 6, 2007

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