decalitre

Then they divide that up again into their decimetre, centimetre, millilitre, decalitre, hectolitre, and a kilolitre.

The British and the Metric Systems 1907

In short (excuse the pun), for one reason or another users in the UK would be better served by a better dictionary of abbreviations than this; US users should be alerted to the fact that the text is British, unedited for American spelling: for ` decagramme, decalitre, decametre 'read ` decagram, decaliter, decameter.'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2 1991