vedro

plural vedros · plural vedra

1. A Russian liquid measure, equal to approximately 2.7 imperial gallons.

   The native cows are small and ugly animals, and do not give on an average more than 60 vedra of milk a year (1 vedro = 2¾ imp. gallons).

   1911 January, R. Efimov, translated by M. D. Byrne, Florence M., Mac-Iver, and A. Brodrick-Bullock, “Agricultural Condition of the Government of Irkutsk (Siberia)”, in International Institute of Agriculture, Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases, 2nd year, number 1, Rome: […] Unione Editrice, […], →OCLC, page 7

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   Measures which have exercised a material influence on the rise of the revenue are: the increase (from October 14, 1908) of the price on Crown spirit by 40 kopeks on the vedro, which for 1911, with a consumption of 91.3 million vedra, amounted to 36.5 million roubles; […]

   1912, Michael Alexeyenko, “Five Years of Budget Work”, in School of Russian Studies in the University of Liverpool, The Russian Review: A Quarterly Review of Russian History, Politics, Economics, and Literature, volume I, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, →OCLC, page 29

   In 1913, 1,788,824 vedra of vodka (a vedra^([sic]) is 2.7 gallons) were consumed in Volhynia, at a cost of $7,500,000. This means on an average twenty bottles of high percentage alcohol raw potato spirit in the year for every person, including babies.

   1915, “Vodka Ban a Blessing”, in The Standard, Chicago, Ill.: Church and Goodman, →OCLC, page 1540, column 2

   We ourselves have not much to live upon. In fact a little water is all that I have swallowed since morning, though I have just disposed of three vedra of wine in the town.

   1927, Ivan Shmelov, translated by C[harles] J[ames] Hogarth, “Conclusion”, in The Sun of the Dead, London; Toronto, Ont.: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 295