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noun - (obsolete): a wagonload; a load of any sort.
- an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
- Quotations
- 1866: Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.
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