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单词 tovet
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tovetn.

Forms: 1500s tolvet, tolvett, 1600s talvett, tovit(t, 1600s–1700s tof(f)et, 1600s–1800s tovet; also 1800s tavort, tobit, tofet, tofiet ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
Etymology: A local word of Kent; evidently the same as tollfat (see toll-fat n. at toll n.1 Compounds).
Obsolete local.
A measure of two pecks or half a bushel.
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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 > peck > two pecks
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tovet1520
frundelc1550
kenningc1574
half-fou'1803
1222 in J. Thorpe Registrum Roffense (1769) 369 xvj *tolfata faciunt unum quarterium salis.]
1520 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paied..for a tolvet of malt in drynk vj d.
1527 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For iij tolvettis of otemele xviij d.
1547 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 93 That all thos p[er]sones that have quernes shall suffer noe body to grynde theirat above a Tolfatt, uppon payn for every Tolfatt more then their owne..iiid.
1618 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) When he brought the iij tovitis of wheat, ij d.
1629 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For a taluett of wheate ij s ij d.
1639 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payed for mendinge of a touitt ij d.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 77 A Tovet or Tofet, half a bushel: Kent.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 81 1 Bushel 2 Tovits or Half Bushels, 1 Tovit 2 Pecks.
1695 Birchington Parish Acct. in Archaeologia Cantiana (1878) 12 407 For three tovets of hair.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 ii. 149 Tovet..in Kent means two pecks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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