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- noun Plural form of
chaldron .
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Examples
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They scarcely hoped to be believed when they affirmed that two hundred and eighty thousand chaldrons that is to say, about three hundred and fifty thousand tons, were, in the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, brought to the Thames.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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In 2009, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City featured a motley assortment of pot-smoking Manhattanites who become obsessed with "chaldrons", beautiful, urnlike objects that none of them has actually seen in person.
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It is in response to Perkus 'whim, and along with Oona Lazlo, the accomplished underwriter, and Richard Abneg, a social justice advocate who now works for the mayor, the two embark upon an inane grail-quest for mysterious ceramics known as "chaldrons."
Andrew Gorin: Paper Tigers with Real Fangs: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City 2009
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By degrees, however, the reports grew stronger, and more frequent, and at last a barge, laden with numerous chaldrons of the best Wallsend, brought up the positive intelligence that several of the arches of the old bridge were stopped, and that preparations were actually in progress for constructing the new one.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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The workable quantity of coal remaining in the ten principal seams of this coal-field is estimated at 1,876,848,756 Newcastle chaldrons (each 35 cwt.).
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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Why was not this new light preached to them long ago: twenty bushels of it would have been of more value than as many chaldrons of sermons, and taking even the explosions of the inspector into the bargain.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various
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Afterwards the word was also used of the amount of coal a keel would carry, i.e. 8 chaldrons, or 21 tons 4 cwt.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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A few additional chaldrons of coals and pairs of blankets, the first frosty winter, bound them his slaves for ever.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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In the brickfields at Uxbridge, near the Drayton Station, one of the brickmakers alone will frequently contract for fifteen or sixteen thousand chaldrons of this cinder-dust, in one order.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Various
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Deducting losses and underground and surface waste, the total merchantable round or good-sized coal will be 1,251,232,507 Newcastle chaldrons.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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