rundlet

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cask sizes

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rundlet (plural rundlets)

  1. A small cask of no certain dimensions, which may contain from 3 to 20 gallons.
    Hypernyms: cask; barrel (broad sense)
  2. Such a cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure for liquids, especially wine, usually 18.5 gallons.
    Hypernym: cask
    Coordinate terms: (in order of increasing volume) barrel (strict sense); tierce; hogshead; puncheon, tertian; pipe, butt; tun
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page 205:
      Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

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