chaldron

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English

Etymology 1

A collateral form of cauldron.

Noun

chaldron (plural chaldrons)

  1. (archaic) 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.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:
      The celdra or chaldron is employed in some places, especially at Finchale or Wearmouth. It appears to contain four quarters or thereabouts, and is perhaps the original measure of which the quarter is a fraction.
    • 1950 November, “Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Limited”, in Railway Magazine, page 724:
      The visitors recorded that it [Locomotion] could haul 20 wagons, each holding one Newcastle chaldron of coal (53 cwt.).
    • ????, De Colange.
      In the United States the chaldron is ordinarily 2,940 lbs, but at New York it is 2,500 lbs.

Etymology 2

Noun

chaldron (plural chaldrons)

  1. Alternative form of chawdron

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

chaldron

  1. Alternative form of caudroun
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