ceroon

plural ceroons

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

   a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

   2 more examples

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

   c. 1850, Theodore Winthrop, Isthmiana

   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.

   1880 August 17, Henry Solomon Wellcome, “The Cinchona-Forests of South America”, in Popular Science Monthly