Crossword-Solution: CHALDRON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chaldron | n. | An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CHALDRON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHALDER | 1 answer |
| England measure old | 1 answer |
| measure old England | 1 answer |
| SCOTTISH dry measure | 2 answers |
| SCOTTISH measure | 4 answers |
| coal measure | 4 answers |
| BRITISH measure | 36 answers |
| ENGLISH measure | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with CHALDRON (5)
The lord mayor, having found all remedies to stay its progress utterly fail, by advice of the medical faculty, ordered that great fires should be kindled in certain districts, by way of purifying the air, Accordingly, two hundred chaldrons of coal, at four pounds a chaldron, were devoted to this purpose.
There bought some news books, and, as every where else, hear every body complain of the dearness of coals, being at L4 per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most bitter cold, the King saying to-day that it was the coldest day he ever knew in England.
Called up by people come to deliver in ten chaldron of coals, brought in one of our prizes from Newcastle.
When a conflagration has taken place--so it was lately--all give something to the family which has suffered from it--a chaldron, a bed-cloth, a chair, and so on--and a modest household is thus reconstituted.
There is a tower at Rouen in Normandie called the Butter Tower; for when it was built a toll was layd upon all the butter that was brought to Rouen, for and towards the building of this tower; as now there is a [duty] layd upon every chaldron of coales towards the building of St Paul's Church, London: so hereafter they may say that that church was built upon New- Castle coales.