chaldron

/chawl-druhn/US // ˈtʃɔl drən //UK // (ˈtʃɔːldrən) //

瓷器

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an English dry measure formerly used for coal, coke, lime, and the like, varying locally from 32 to 36 bushels or more.

This afternoon came my great store of Coles in, being to Chaldron, so that I may see how long they will last me.
I did not care what it was worth, I did not know what a chaldron was, anyway,—and I have never found out.
Why, Baron Squash takes ten thousand chaldron of us every year; but he has such a knack, he gits the Clubs to take them.'
Each chaldron-waggon had a man in charge of it, and was originally drawn by one horse.
The rest we intend to sell, we having above ten chaldron between us.