English

Noun
en-noun

1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.

#:Quotations
#:*1882: ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

Old High German

Etymology
Common Ger.|goh *term|faltho, whence also Old English term|feald, Old Norse term|faldr.

Noun
infl|goh|noun|g=f

1. fold

Scottish Gaelic

Noun
infl|gd|noun|g=f|genitive|fuilt

1. (Human) hair, and specifically that on the head.

#:"gruagach|Gruagach òg|�g an Fhuilt bàn|Bhàin" ("Young Maiden of the Fair Hair").

category:gd:Anatomy

fr:falt
ku:falt
tr:falt

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