Meaning of ceroon | Babel Free

Definitions

A bale or package, covered or bound with hide, formerly used in Central America.

archaic

Examples

“a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.”

“Troops of pack animals constantly passed us, laden with enormous hide ceroons, filled with grain. The scene was pastoral.”

“The final sorting and classifying of bark are done at the main store-houses at the coast, where it is closely packed in ceroons of previously moistened cowhides (hair-side out), or in bales of heavy sacking.”

CEFR level