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fotmal

fotmal

English

Noun

fotmal ‎(plural fotmals)

(obsolete) An old English unit of weight of 70 pounds, used particularly for lead

Hypernyms

(30 fotmals) load, cartload, carrus, fother, fodder

Synonyms

foot, formel, fortinel, fotmael, fotmell

Hyponyms

(¹/₇₀ fotmal & for smaller subdivisions) Tower pound, troy pound, avoirdupois pound

See also

footmeal

Translations

old English unit of weight

Latin: pes (la), fotmal

References

↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "fotmal, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1891.

Latin

Etymology

From Old English fótmǽl

Noun

fotmal

(Medieval) fotmal, a unit of 70 pounds
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
  carrus plumbi constat ex triginta fotmallis
  The cartload of lead is formed from thirty fotmals.