Word Meanings - FIRLOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.

• WHEATSTONESRODS
  Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised b
• Graining.
  of Grain
• Measureless
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
• Measurement
  The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
• Grainfield
  A field where grain is grown.
• Measurer
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• Barleybrake
  Alt. of Barleybreak
• Barleybreak
  An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
• Wheatbird
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• Barley-bree
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale.
• Wheatear
  A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called al
• Barleycorn
  A grain or "corn" of barley.

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