Forpet
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity. Scotland, dated
"Now, as I learned afterwards[…]that straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three forpets; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure."
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More examples"Now, as I learned afterwards[…]that straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three forpets; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure."
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