ankern.
1. A measure of wine and spirits, used in Holland, North Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. It varies in different countries; that of Rotterdam, formerly also used in England, contains 10 old wine gallons or 8⅓ imperial gallons.
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1673 Pennsylvania Arch. I. 32 Recd one halfe Ankor of Drinke.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 9 A few anchors of right Nantz.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1762) I. vi. lxxxi. 371, 2 Stakans = 1 anchor; 6 Anchors = 1 hogshead [in Russia].
1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 ii. 217 The infused water amounts to 2 or 3½ ankers in quantity.
2. A cask or keg holding the above quantity.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > of specific size
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?c1750 Anc. Poems, Bal. etc. (1846) 180 We'll drink it out of the anker, my boys.
1848 in H. Miller Rambles Geologist x. 384 Wedging them all fast together, like staves in an anker.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 290 The little there was..we transferred most carefully to the anker.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units
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1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. To Gentl. Rdrs., I feare me, that the acres of my fielde passe the anchers of my seed.
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