| 词汇 | dry-measure |
| 释义 | dry measure noun[ C or U ] ukus MEASURES a unit or a system of units for measuring dry products that are sold in quantity, such as grain: In the United States, the bushel is the common dry measure for corn and wheat. Examples of dry measuredry measure Storekeepers, farmers, and fishermen needed a standard unit of drymeasure for their trade products. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A kenning is an obsolete unit of drymeasure in the imperial system, equal to two pecks or half a bushel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The homer should not be confused with the omer, which is a much smaller unit of drymeasure. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Drymeasure cups without a scale are sometimes used, in sets typically of 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, and 1 cup. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The drymeasure volume containers sold varnished, plain, and rough, depending on customer wants. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nevertheless, there was considerable local variation in many of the units, and the units of drymeasure steadily increased in size from 1400 to 1700. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A cuartera is a drymeasure which equates to approximately fifteen pecks of barley, and one day later, the king reaffirmed the promises of granting land. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with metric prefixes, was the stre, still sometimes used for drymeasure (for instance, in reference to wood). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I am pleased to take part in a debate on what may be considered by some to be a drymeasure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A "firlot" is a fourth part of a boll, drymeasure. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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