Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalder
Literary usage of Chalder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports on the State of Certain Parishes in Scotland: Made to His Majesty's by Scotland Teind Court (1835)
"... ane chalder and half chalder beir and half ane chalder of peis and ... inde iij
chalder iiij bollis And we think tham worth communibus annis xij bollis ..."
2. The Miscellany of the Wodrow Society: Containing Tracts and Original Letters by David Laing (1844)
"I Meill, xvi li. the chalder. ... xx merks the chalder. ... In Galloway, xvj li.
the chalder of ..."
3. Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh: Their History and Annals by Alexander Laing (1876)
"... i chalder xij bollis viz. iij bollis frumenti xi bollis ... withe the half
pairt of the mylne land and haill ij chalder xiiij bollis viz. iiij bollis ..."
4. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"In old Scotch law, a measure of grain, otherwise called a "chalder." See 1 Kames,
Eq. 21.j. CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE. Tlio formal act by which a man and ..."
5. Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Several Matters by Great Britain Coal Commission, Coal Commission, George Douglas Campbell Argyll, Great Britain (1871)
"the ton ' " And yet notwithstanding these impositions coals might be sold for
twenty shillings the chalder all the year long, at London, with greater gain ..."
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