dry measure
dry measure
system of units of capacity used in measuring dry commodities
dry measures
system for measuring dry goods (grain, vegetables, etc.)
Dry measure
Dry measures are
units of
volume used to measure
bulk commodities which are not
fluids, which were typically shipped in and sold by standardized containers such as
barrels. They are typically used in
agriculture,
agronomy, and
commodity markets to measure
grain, dried
beans, dried and fresh fruit,
clams, and
crabs. They were formerly used for many other foods, such as
salt pork and
salted fish, and for industrial commodities such as coal, cement, and lime.
dry measure
Noun
1. a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain)
(synonym) dry unit
(hypernym) volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
(hyponym) British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
dry measure
dry-measure
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