"poulter's measure" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by George Gascoigne in 1576, because it was said that poulters gave 12 eggs for the first dozen and 14 if you bought a second dozen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poulter's measures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "poulter's measure (plural poulter's measures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poetry",
          "orig": "en:Poetry",
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            "Human behaviour",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1547, Earl Surrey, Complaint on the absence of her lover being at sea.",
          "text": "Good ladies, ye that have your pleasure in exile\nStep in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me awhile.\nAnd such as by their lords do set but little price,\nLet them sit still, it skills them not what chance come on the dice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables."
      ],
      "id": "en-poulter's_measure-en-noun-9dPwONlz",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetry",
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          "metre",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetry) A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "poetry",
        "publishing",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poulter's measure"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by George Gascoigne in 1576, because it was said that poulters gave 12 eggs for the first dozen and 14 if you bought a second dozen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poulter's measures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "poulter's measure (plural poulter's measures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Poetry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1547, Earl Surrey, Complaint on the absence of her lover being at sea.",
          "text": "Good ladies, ye that have your pleasure in exile\nStep in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me awhile.\nAnd such as by their lords do set but little price,\nLet them sit still, it skills them not what chance come on the dice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetry",
          "poetry"
        ],
        [
          "metre",
          "metre"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetry) A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "poetry",
        "publishing",
        "writing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poulter's measure"
}