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

Give notice to your employers when the contents of your COAL-CELLAR are diminished to a chaldron.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

To meet these heavy charges a duty of fourpence per chaldron was levied on coals and culm imported into London, and also an additional duty of sixpence per chaldron for fifty years.

From The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by William Ferneley Allen

The largest quantity of work will not be done by this curious engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

Why, Baron Squash takes ten thousand chaldron of us every year; but he has such a knack, he gits the Clubs to take them.'

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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