auln

auln (plural aulns)

1. (obsolete) An ell (unit of measure).
   • 1677, Roberts Lewe, The Merchants Map of Commerce, page 176:

     The Measure is here an Auln, by which all Commodities of Woollen and Linnen is measured, and is accounted 1 ¼ yards English, but those that have made tryal thereof find it to be 46 inches;

   • 1794, Arthur Young, Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, page 542:

     They shewed us however some cloth, made as they say entirely of Spanish wool, at 3 liv. 10s the lb. which is not so good as their ratteens, made with ⅔ wool of Navarre and Roussillon, and ⅓ Spanish; they make some Navarre, an auln broad, at 11 liv. the auln; ratteens ¼ of an auln broad, at 22 liv. the auln; a second sort of ratteens, mad with French wool, an auln broad, 11 liv. the auln.

   • 1851, Richard Robert Madden, The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World:

     The Père Simon, cited by Picart, makes mention of a custom prevailing amongst the Jews at the occurrence of a death; the mourners who are in attendance rend their garments, but so as to occasion no material injury to them—making only a small tear, about an eighth of an auln to the left, except when the mourning is for a father, or mother, or a child, when all the robes are torn on the right side.

   • 1889, Silas Deane, ‎Charles Isham, The Deane Papers ... 1774-1790 - Volume 21, page 175:

     It was the additional weight of the four buttons and one-sixteenth of an auln of cloth, which, he said, must help to fatigue the soldier in his marching .

2. (obsolete) A barrel (as a measure for wine).
   • 1740, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:

     To amend the smell and Taste of French and Rhenish Wines, which are foul; take one Pound of Honey, an Handful of Elder-flowers, an Ounce of Orrice-powder, one Nutmeg, a few Cloves to an Auln of the Wine, boil them in a sufficient Quantity of the Wine to be cured, to the Consumption of half; and when it is cold, strain it, and use it with the Rod: some add a little Salt.

   • 1833, John Murray, The Physiology of Plants, page 179:

     The yearly produce, on an average, amounts to 110,000 aulns.

   • 1886, Stone's Dunedin & Invercargill Commercial, Municipal, & General Directory, page 415:

     An Auln of Hock, 30 imperial gallons

• Alun, An-lu, Anlu, Lu'an, Luna, luan, luna, ulan, ulna, unal