chaldron

American  

[chawl-druhn] / ˈtʃɔl drən /

noun

1. an English dry measure formerly used for coal, coke, lime, and the like, varying locally from 32 to 36 bushels or more.

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chaldron British  

/ ˈtʃɔːldrən /

noun

1. a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres

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Etymology

Origin of chaldron

1375–1425; late Middle English, earlier chaudron < Middle French chauderon cauldron

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Example Sentences

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chaldron

When a conflagration has taken place—so it was lately—all give something to the family which has suffered from it—a chaldron, a bed-cloth, a chair, and so on—and a modest household is thus reconstituted.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

In the brick-fields at Uxbridge, near the Drayton Station, one of the brickmakers alone will frequently contract for fifteen or sixteen thousand chaldron of this cinder-dust, in one order.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

This locomotive drew sixteen chaldron waggons containing an aggregate weight of seventy tons, at the rate of about three miles an hour. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

About half a chaldron of small coal lay heaped in a wooden angular fence fitted to the ship's side, for the sight of which I thanked God.

From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

Let your sauce be chaldron for a Swan, and serve it in saucers.

From The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

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