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English
Noun
forpet (plural forpets)
- (dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
1807, Letters from a young Farmer to his Father: The Farmer's Magazine, volume 8, Edinburgh, page 472:Now, as I learned afterwards […] that straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three forpets; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure.
1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow, volume 2, page 221:The forpet, or one-fourth part of a peck, contains 3 Scotch standard pints and one choppin, is 7¾ inches diameter at the bottom, 6¾ inches at the mouth, and 9⅛ inches deep.
1829, George Robertson, Rural Recollections, page 313:[…] they were gradually disposed of during the winter and ensuing spring, on the Edinburgh street—hawked about in carts, or sold to hucksters, who re-sold them to the town's people, in forpets and half-forpets, at a small advance in price, (about a shilling on a boll,) to reimburse them for their trouble.