Falt

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 2 Scots Gaelic 2.1 Noun

English

Noun

falt

1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.

   Quotations

   • 1882: ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

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Scots Gaelic

Noun

falt f., gen fuilt

1. (Human) hair, and specifically that on the head.

   "Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàin" ("Young Maiden of the Fair Hair").