"auln" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "ref": "1677, Roberts Lewe, The Merchants Map of Commerce, page 176:",
          "text": "The Measure is here an Auln, by which all Commodities of Woollen and Linnen is measured, and is accounted 1 ¼ yards English, but those that have made tryal thereof find it to be 46 inches;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1794, Arthur Young, Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, page 542:",
          "text": "They shewed us however some cloth, made as they say entirely of Spanish wool, at 3 liv. 10s the lb. which is not so good as their ratteens, made with ⅔ wool of Navarre and Roussillon, and ⅓ Spanish; they make some Navarre, an auln broad, at 11 liv. the auln; ratteens ¼ of an auln broad, at 22 liv. the auln; a second sort of ratteens, mad with French wool, an auln broad, 11 liv. the auln.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1851, Richard Robert Madden, The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World:",
          "text": "The Père Simon, cited by Picart, makes mention of a custom prevailing amongst the Jews at the occurrence of a death; the mourners who are in attendance rend their garments, but so as to occasion no material injury to them—making only a small tear, about an eighth of an auln to the left, except when the mourning is for a father, or mother, or a child, when all the robes are torn on the right side.",
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          "ref": "1889, Silas Deane, Charles Isham, The Deane Papers ... 1774-1790 - Volume 21, page 175:",
          "text": "It was the additional weight of the four buttons and one-sixteenth of an auln of cloth, which, he said, must help to fatigue the soldier in his marching .",
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      "glosses": [
        "An ell (unit of measure)."
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        "(obsolete) An ell (unit of measure)."
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        "obsolete"
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        {
          "ref": "1740, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:",
          "text": "To amend the smell and Taste of French and Rhenish Wines, which are foul; take one Pound of Honey, an Handful of Elder-flowers, an Ounce of Orrice-powder, one Nutmeg, a few Cloves to an Auln of the Wine, boil them in a sufficient Quantity of the Wine to be cured, to the Consumption of half; and when it is cold, strain it, and use it with the Rod: some add a little Salt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1833, John Murray, The Physiology of Plants, page 179:",
          "text": "The yearly produce, on an average, amounts to 110,000 aulns.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Stone's Dunedin & Invercargill Commercial, Municipal, & General Directory, page 415:",
          "text": "An Auln of Hock, 30 imperial gallons",
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        }
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        "A barrel (as a measure for wine)."
      ],
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          "barrel"
        ],
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          "wine",
          "wine"
        ]
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        "(obsolete) A barrel (as a measure for wine)."
      ],
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          "ref": "1677, Roberts Lewe, The Merchants Map of Commerce, page 176:",
          "text": "The Measure is here an Auln, by which all Commodities of Woollen and Linnen is measured, and is accounted 1 ¼ yards English, but those that have made tryal thereof find it to be 46 inches;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1794, Arthur Young, Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, page 542:",
          "text": "They shewed us however some cloth, made as they say entirely of Spanish wool, at 3 liv. 10s the lb. which is not so good as their ratteens, made with ⅔ wool of Navarre and Roussillon, and ⅓ Spanish; they make some Navarre, an auln broad, at 11 liv. the auln; ratteens ¼ of an auln broad, at 22 liv. the auln; a second sort of ratteens, mad with French wool, an auln broad, 11 liv. the auln.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1851, Richard Robert Madden, The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World:",
          "text": "The Père Simon, cited by Picart, makes mention of a custom prevailing amongst the Jews at the occurrence of a death; the mourners who are in attendance rend their garments, but so as to occasion no material injury to them—making only a small tear, about an eighth of an auln to the left, except when the mourning is for a father, or mother, or a child, when all the robes are torn on the right side.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1889, Silas Deane, Charles Isham, The Deane Papers ... 1774-1790 - Volume 21, page 175:",
          "text": "It was the additional weight of the four buttons and one-sixteenth of an auln of cloth, which, he said, must help to fatigue the soldier in his marching .",
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        "(obsolete) An ell (unit of measure)."
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          "text": "To amend the smell and Taste of French and Rhenish Wines, which are foul; take one Pound of Honey, an Handful of Elder-flowers, an Ounce of Orrice-powder, one Nutmeg, a few Cloves to an Auln of the Wine, boil them in a sufficient Quantity of the Wine to be cured, to the Consumption of half; and when it is cold, strain it, and use it with the Rod: some add a little Salt.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1833, John Murray, The Physiology of Plants, page 179:",
          "text": "The yearly produce, on an average, amounts to 110,000 aulns.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1886, Stone's Dunedin & Invercargill Commercial, Municipal, & General Directory, page 415:",
          "text": "An Auln of Hock, 30 imperial gallons",
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        "A barrel (as a measure for wine)."
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        "(obsolete) A barrel (as a measure for wine)."
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