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A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels
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chaldron
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Chaldron \Chal"dron\, n. [OF. chaldron, F. chaudron kettle. The same word as caldron.] An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and ...
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n. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels
Wikipedia
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A chaldron (also chauldron or chalder ) was an English measure of dry volume, mostly used for coal; the word itself is an obsolete spelling of cauldron . It was used from the 13th century onwards, nominally until 1963 when it was abolished by the Weights ...
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n. (context archaic English) An old English dry measure, containing four quarters. At London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
Usage examples of chaldron.
The Ghaldron-Hesthor Transposition Field was a collaboration between Chaldron (who was working to develop a spacewarp drive) and Hesthor (who was working on the possibility of linear time travel, that is to get back to the past) and Rhogom (who was studying precognition).
Sometimes I wish Chaldron Karf and Hesthor Ghrom had strangled in their cradles!
When you see the word chaldron in an English book no foreigner can guess how to pronounce it.
The reader knows that it is pronounced chaldron -- or kaldron, or kawldron -- but neither he nor his grandmother can tell which is the right way without looking in the dictionary.
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.