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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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†AUCHLET, AUGHLETT, AUCHLATE, ACHLET, n. A measure (of meal); the eighth part of a boll, and half of a firlot. Found in O.Sc.Sc. 1819 Caled. Mercury (1 Nov.):
Old Creadie himself has often bought oatmeal at sevenpence the “auchlet,” a measure which usually contained two pounds more than the present stone denotes.Gall. 1707 Session Bk. Penninghame (1933) I. 194:
Three achlets of corn from the ground where Thomas M'Caw forsaid was sewing Castlestewarts corn.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 23:
Auchlate — An old measure. Two were a peck; one, a stone of meal nearly; but these may be much more or less according to the craft of the measurer.Wgt. 1729 in G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 39:
Ane Sackfull of Clean white Corn, Containing Fourteen Aughletts.Kcb. 1796 Bill in Scott O. Mortality, Introd. (2nd ed. 1830):
To Four Auchlet of Ait Meal, . . . £0 3 4.Kcb.⁴ c.1900:
Auchlet, a measure of twenty Scotch pints.