lispoundn.

/ˈlɪspaʊnd/

Forms: Also 1500s lespund, lesh pund, 1600s–1700s leispound, (1700s lispond), 1700s–1800s lispund.

Etymology: < Low German and Dutch lispund, contracted < livsch pund ‘Livonian pound’ = medieval Latin livonicum talentum. (An example, in the form lispunt, is quoted by Du Cange from a Polish document of 1454.)

A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, and in Orkney and Shetland, varying at different periods and in different localities from 12 to 30 pounds.

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1545 Rates Custome House sig. dvj viii. lyspoundes facit .c. li. xx. lispoundes facit a shyp pounde.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Serplaith Ane stane and twa pound Scottish makis ane lesh pund.

a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 92 Leispound a weight of their Victual, which contains 24 of their Merks: it is also called a Setten. This answers to 28 of our pounds.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 197 The butter..is delivered to the landlord in certain cases by the lispond. This denomination of weight consisted originally of only 12 Scotch or Dutch pounds. By various acts..it has been gradually raised to 30 lb.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. i. 19 Eight lispunds of butter.

1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 33 A tribute of 127 lispounds of walrus-teeth.

1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1635 [At Riga] the lispound = 20 lbs. [= 18·4 lbs. avoirdupois].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	lispound
释义	lispoundn. /ˈlɪspaʊnd/ Forms: Also 1500s lespund, lesh pund, 1600s–1700s leispound, (1700s lispond), 1700s–1800s lispund. Etymology: < Low German and Dutch lispund, contracted < livsch pund ‘Livonian pound’ = medieval Latin livonicum talentum. (An example, in the form lispunt, is quoted by Du Cange from a Polish document of 1454.) A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, and in Orkney and Shetland, varying at different periods and in different localities from 12 to 30 pounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units of weight in Baltic trade lispound1545 shippound1545 skippound1622 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units in Orkney and Shetland meil1536 lispound1545 mark1577 setting1577 1545 Rates Custome House sig. dvj viii. lyspoundes facit .c. li. xx. lispoundes facit a shyp pounde. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Serplaith Ane stane and twa pound Scottish makis ane lesh pund. a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 92 Leispound a weight of their Victual, which contains 24 of their Merks: it is also called a Setten. This answers to 28 of our pounds. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 197 The butter..is delivered to the landlord in certain cases by the lispond. This denomination of weight consisted originally of only 12 Scotch or Dutch pounds. By various acts..it has been gradually raised to 30 lb. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. i. 19 Eight lispunds of butter. 1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 33 A tribute of 127 lispounds of walrus-teeth. 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1635 [At Riga] the lispound = 20 lbs. [= 18·4 lbs. avoirdupois]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1545
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