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falt

falt noun: an old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.

Noun

falt (plural falts)

  1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
    • ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205

Forms of falt

pluralfalts

Questions about falt

What does falt mean?
Falt means an old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
What part of speech is falt?
Falt is a noun.
What is the plural of falt?
The plural of falt is falts.

Words near falt in the dictionary

  1. Falsterbo
  2. falsterite
  3. Falstone
  4. falsum
  5. falsy
  6. falt
  7. Falta
  8. faltboat
  9. faltboats
  10. faltche
  11. faltches

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