beakment

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English

Etymology

Corruption of beatment.

Noun

beakment (plural beakments)

  1. (obsolete, dialect, Northern England) A measure of a quarter of a peck.
    • 1878, “The Household Books of the Lord William Howard, Of Naworth Castle”, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, volume 68, Surtees Society, page 26:
      9. iij pecks and a beakment† of salt, iijs.
    • 1889, A. Johnson, “Bywell”, in Archaeologia Aeliana, volume XIII, page 116:
      Ann, wife of Richard Forster of Stocksfeild, did swing upon the rope, and, upon the first swing, she gott a cheese, and upon the second she gott a beakment of wheat flower, and upon the third swing she gott about halfe a quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water.
    • 1891 June, William Weaver Tomlinson, “Bywell-on-Tyne”, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, volume V, number 52, pages 273-274:
      One witch obtained a capon, the plum-broth it was boiled in, and a bottle of wine; another a chease, a “beakment” of wheat flour, and ‘‘half-a-quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water”; []