- neeaf-ful - a handful
- gaapon - as much as two hands together will hold
- jonket - a large helping of anything
- batch - a small quantity of grain ground especially
meler - quantity of grain ground at once; quantity of meal, flour
etc
- hoop - four quarts (nut measure)
- heeap - = 6 quarts (neet measure)
- hoop - a quarter of a peck, as a peck was a quarter of a bushel
- peck - for grain, 24 Winchester quarts
- bushel - in Furness = 96 quarts = 3 Winchester
bushels
- læad - load (of wheat = 1½ bushels, barley = 2,
oats = 2½ bushels)
- lap - a small bundle of oat straw tied with straw drawn from one
end of the bundle and twisted
- bottle - a large bundle of straw; small bundles are laps
- threeav - the straw from 24 sheaves of grain. 8 laps of oat
straw = 1 threeav
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