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lispound (ˈlɪspaʊnd) Also 6 lespund, lesh pund, 7–8 leispound, (8 lispond), 8–9 lispund. [ad. LG. and Du. lispund, contr. f. livsch pund ‘Livonian pound’ = med.L. livonicum talentum. (An example, in the form lispunt, is quoted by Du Cange from a Polish document of 1454.)] A unit of weight used in th...
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Älvsborg Ransom (1613)
The tax could also be paid in kind; one lispound (~8.5 kilograms) copper per 1½ rixdollars, one shippound (~136 kilograms) bar iron per 4 rixdollars, one
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shippound
shippound (ˈʃɪpˈpaʊnd) Also 6 schip pund, 8 schippound, scheppund, 9 shippund. [ad. MLG. schippunt (see also skippound) or MDu. schippond; whence ON. skippund, G. schiffpfund, etc.] A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, varying from 300 to 400 pounds; = 20 lispounds.1545 Rates of Customs d vj, ...
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setting
▪ I. setting, n. Orkney and Shetland. Also 6 settein, 7–9 setten, 9 settin, -een. [a. ON. séttung-r sixth part, f. sétte sixth.] A unit of weight in the Orkney and Shetland Isles; the sixth part of a ‘meal’ (meal n.4); identical with the lispound.1576 in Oppress. Orkney & Zetl. (1859) 72 Ane barrell...
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