forpet
forpet noun: a quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
Noun
forpet (plural forpets)
- A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
- Now, as I learned afterwards[…]that straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three forpets; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy...1807, Letters from a young Farmer to his Father: The Farmer's Magazine, volume 8, Edinburgh, page 472
- The forpet, or one-fourth part of a peck, contains 3 Scotch standard pints and one choppin, is 7¾ inches diameter at the bottom, 6¾ inches at the mouth, and 9⅛ inches deep.1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow, volume 2, page 221
Forms of forpet
| plural | forpets |
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| alternative form | forpit |
Questions about forpet
- What does forpet mean?
- Forpet means a quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
- What part of speech is forpet?
- Forpet is a noun.
- What is the plural of forpet?
- The plural of forpet is forpets.
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