firlot
firlot noun: a measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
Noun
firlot (plural firlots)
- A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
- [T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union; […]”, in A History of the Union...
- A fairy came one day from one of the turrets of Craig-ail-naic to the wife of one of the tenants in Delnabo, and asked her to lend her a firlot of oatmeal for food for her family, promising to repay it soon, as she was every moment expecting an ample supply.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 389
Forms of firlot
| plural | firlots |
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Origin of firlot
Reduced form of Middle English firthelote (attested 1264), equivalent to ferthe (“fouth”) + lot (“portion, share”).
Questions about firlot
- What does firlot mean?
- Firlot means a measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
- What part of speech is firlot?
- Firlot is a noun.
- What is the plural of firlot?
- The plural of firlot is firlots.
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