单词 | setier |
释义 | setiern. Now historical. 1. A former French measure of capacity, varying according to locality and commodity. a. A unit of capacity for wine and other liquids.Commonly equivalent to a gallon (4.55 litres) in imperial measure; sometimes considerably larger. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific ambereOE setier1514 mosse1617 wine-measure1728 can1809 maund1874 1514 in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 26 In wyn iiij septiers. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Hipocras Take three half Setiers of good Water boiled and cool'd, with half a Setier of good white Wine. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 423 The corn measure was the muid equal to 12 setiers, 48 mines, or 144 bushels... The wine measure was the muid of 36 setiers, 144 quarts, or 288 pints. 1997 Sixteenth Cent. Jrnl. 28 124 The standard measure of wine, one setier (54 liters), was worth about twenty écus. b. A unit of capacity for grain and other dry substances.Commonly equivalent to four bushels (about 150 litres) in imperial measure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > French units muida1425 setier1523 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxv/2 A ceptyer of whete was worthe at Parys viii. li. parisienn and a septier of otes at lx. s. of parys. 1633 E. Grimeston tr. Polybius Hist. vi. 202 A Septier of Wheate. marg. A Septier is two Mines, and a Mine two London bushels. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 64 The Muid, Paris Measure, containing 12 Septiers, which makes 2 Tons. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 251 The septier of wheat, a measure which contains a little more than four Winchester bushels. View more context for this quotation 1826 W. Henry Elem. Chem. II. 631 The septier of Paris is 7736 French, or 9370·45 English, cubical inches. 1996 S. L. Kaplan Bakers of Paris & Bread Question xvi. 445 One common form of reckoning cast consumption in terms of setiers per capita per year. 2. A former French measure of land, representing the area that can be sown with one setier of seed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure wandalec1150 wista1200 landc1400 ridge1439 peck1442 scrophec1450 buttc1460 rig1485 mark1488 stick1531 farthingdeal1543 plough-gang1548 quarterland1563 ploughgate1565 last1576 wand1596 ox-skin1610 garbred1621 plank1631 nooka1634 buttal1635 farthinga1640 rick1641 familia1676 rhandir1688 setiera1690 worthine1701 fierding1768 whip-land1811 rai1933 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 114 A Septier of Land he saith is much about the Arpent. 1792 A. Young Trav. France ii. iv. 308 At La Belle Angloise the rent is three septiers of wheat per septier of land. 1888 tr. E. Zola Soil ii. 23 There was a setier of vineyard; that, certainly, would let for fifty francs. 2018 A. Greer Prop. & Dispossession ix. 316 In theory, a setier of land was the area that would be sown with one setier of seed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1514 |
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