The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sextary
Sextary \Sex"ta*ry\, n.; pl. Sextaries. [L. sextarius the sixth part of a measure, weight, etc., fr. sextus sixth, sex six.] (Rom. Antiq.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
Sextary
Sextary \Sex"ta*ry\, n. [For sextonry.] A sacristy. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
sextary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint. 2 An Old English measure of liquid, usually wine or cider, perhaps containing 6 gallons. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) A sacristy.
Usage examples of "sextary".
There were floods, or so I understood, season after season, when the fields had no furrows and with a bushel of seed you harvested a sextary, and then the sextary was reduced to nothing.