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plural falts
An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels. quotations examples
...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205