Definition of Daer
{ Da"ker (?), Da"kir (?), } n.
[See Dicker.] (O. Eng. & Scots Law) A measure of
certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes
twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a
daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Quotations
*1866: The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 171.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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