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seron|ˈsɪərən, sɪˈruːn|
Also 6, 9 serone, 9 seroon; see also ceroon.
[ad. Sp. seron hamper, crate (f. sera large basket), partly through F. serron (spelt also céron).]
A bale or package (of exotic products, e.g. almonds, medicinal bark, cocoa) made up in an animal's hide.
1545Rates Custom ho. d vij, A cheste of suger... A serone of sope... A barrell of pepper. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 213 An olde Seron, wherein the slaues did beare out the ordure of the stable. 1640in Northouck's Lond. (1773) 841/2 For a bag or sack 4d. For a seron 3d. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Seron of Almonds, the Quantity of Two Hundred Weight: Of Anis-seeds from 3 to 4 C: Of Castle-Soap from 2½ C to 33/4 C. 1745Lond. Even. Post 5 Mar. 1/2 Having on board 800 Serons of Cacoa. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 164 Twenty-three serons of dollars, each weighing upwards of 200 l. averdupois. 1821J. Smyth Pract. Customs 103 [Horse Hair] In Serons or Bales from South America..usually weighing from 18 to 24 lbs. each. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle ix, Forty seroons of cochineal. 1890Chamb. Jrnl. 11 Jan. 22 The bulk of medicinal barks are imported in bales and serons. |