auln

plural aulns

1. obsoleteAn ell (unit of measure).

   It was the additional weight of the four buttons and one-sixteenth of an auln of cloth, which, he said, must help to fatigue the soldier in his marching .

   1889, Silas Deane, Charles Isham, The Deane Papers ... 1774-1790 - Volume 21, page 175

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   The Measure is here an Auln, by which all Commodities of Woollen and Linnen is measured, and is accounted 1 ¼ yards English, but those that have made tryal thereof find it to be 46 inches;

   1677, Roberts Lewe, The Merchants Map of Commerce, page 176

   They shewed us however some cloth, made as they say entirely of Spanish wool, at 3 liv. 10s the lb. which is not so good as their ratteens, made with ⅔ wool of Navarre and Roussillon, and ⅓ Spanish; they make some Navarre, an auln broad, at 11 liv. the auln; ratteens ¼ of an auln broad, at 22 liv. the auln; a second sort of ratteens, mad with French wool, an auln broad, 11 liv. the auln.

   1794, Arthur Young, Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, page 542

   The Père Simon, cited by Picart, makes mention of a custom prevailing amongst the Jews at the occurrence of a death; the mourners who are in attendance rend their garments, but so as to occasion no material injury to them—making only a small tear, about an eighth of an auln to the left, except when the mourning is for a father, or mother, or a child, when all the robes are torn on the right side.

   1851, Richard Robert Madden, The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World

2. obsoleteA barrel (as a measure for wine).

   An Auln of Hock, 30 imperial gallons

   1886, Stone's Dunedin & Invercargill Commercial, Municipal, & General Directory, page 415

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   To amend the smell and Taste of French and Rhenish Wines, which are foul; take one Pound of Honey, an Handful of Elder-flowers, an Ounce of Orrice-powder, one Nutmeg, a few Cloves to an Auln of the Wine, boil them in a sufficient Quantity of the Wine to be cured, to the Consumption of half; and when it is cold, strain it, and use it with the Rod: some add a little Salt.

   1740, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary

   The yearly produce, on an average, amounts to 110,000 aulns.

   1833, John Murray, The Physiology of Plants, page 179