Meaning of beakment | Babel Free

Definitions

A measure of a quarter of a peck.

Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“9. iij pecks and a beakment† of salt, iijˢ.”

“Ann, wife of Richard Forster of Stocksfeild, did swing upon the rope, and, upon the first swing, she gott a cheese, and upon the second she gott a beakment of wheat flower, and upon the third swing she gott about halfe a quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water.”

“One witch obtained a capon, the plum-broth it was boiled in, and a bottle of wine; another a chease, a “beakment” of wheat flour, and ‘‘half-a-quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water”; […]”

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