"chalder" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably a form of chaldron.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chalders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chalder (plural chalders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Units of measure",
          "orig": "en:Units of measure",
          "parents": [
            "Metrology",
            "Quantity",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Mathematics",
            "Sciences",
            "Formal sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union; […]”, in A History of the Union between England and Scotland, with a Collection of Original Papers Relating thereto. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], →OCLC, page 600:",
          "text": "[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old Scottish dry measure, equal to 16 bolls."
      ],
      "id": "en-chalder-en-noun-aynnv8sX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Scottish",
          "Scottish"
        ],
        [
          "dry measure",
          "dry measure"
        ],
        [
          "boll",
          "boll"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chalder"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably a form of chaldron.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chalders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "chalder (plural chalders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Units of measure"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union; […]”, in A History of the Union between England and Scotland, with a Collection of Original Papers Relating thereto. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], →OCLC, page 600:",
          "text": "[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old Scottish dry measure, equal to 16 bolls."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Scottish",
          "Scottish"
        ],
        [
          "dry measure",
          "dry measure"
        ],
        [
          "boll",
          "boll"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chalder"
}