Crossword-Solution: FIRLOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Firlot | n. | A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. |
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Sentences with FIRLOT (5)
Firlot, that kept the huxtry in the Saltmarket; and they were both so well made, that our dairy was just a coining of money, insomuch that, after the first year, we had the whole tot of my stipend to put untouched into the bank.
Prices are quoted in official circulars in every fashion, from the Mark-Lane quarter to the Scotch boll, the firlot, the load (which may be of various dimensions), the coomb, the last, the barrel (which also may be various), the ton, the hundredweight, and the pound.
The poor man she declared to be her choice, but the purse-proud father declared his firlot of silver money, his twelve cows, and as many calves, his sheep and oxen, intended as his daughter's dower, would never enrich a pennyless man without houses and lands.
Crafter 395 "Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi" 395 Replies to Minor Queries:--Sir Gammer Vans-- Hipperswitches--Cat and Bagpipes--Forlot, Firlot, or Furlet--Sitting during the Lessons--Engelmann's Bibliotheca Auctor.
Indeed I expect, in the end of next week, to look in upon Bowhill, per the Selkirk mail, about eight at night, with the hope of spending a day there, which will be more comfortable than at Abbotsford, where I should feel like a mouse below a firlot.