chalders

"chalders" and "bolls" ([Greek: lebaetes] and [Greek: tripodes]), as in Scotland when coin was scarce indeed.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

That of Milford, of which however only about 6,000 chalders are annually exported, sells generally at from 50s. to 60s. per chaldron in the London market -- a price vastly exceeding the finest

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

Independent of foreign trade, 55,066 chalders of culm and 10,319 tons of stone-coal were shipped coastwise in 1819: last year the ports of Swansea and Neath shipped 123,000 chalders of stone-coal and culm.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

The public fires which were made on these occasions, as I have calculated it, must necessarily have cost the city about 200 chalders of coals a week, if they had continued, which was indeed a very great quantity; but as it was thought necessary, nothing was spared.

A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935

Scots, while Knox and four superintendents got a few chalders of wheat and “bear.”

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

The Earl of Argyle's service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the in-bringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of Kintire.

Rob Roy 1887

Lauderdale; and I offer to buy forty chalders of victual from my Lord

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

Scots, while Knox and four superintendents got a few chalders of wheat and "bear."

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

I would not have you to count men to be rich and glorious men by their estates in the world -- that he can spend so many chalders of victual yearly, or so many thousand merks.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

Highland minister did before -- turning sinners as a colley dog turns sheep -- a favourite of the Duke of Argyle, and drawing a stipend of eight hundred punds Scots, and four chalders of victual.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801