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struck measure

noun

  1. a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.


struck measure

noun

  1. a measure of grain, etc, in which the contents are made level with the top of the container rather than being heaped
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of struck measure1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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As respects the last, the colony never gave "struck measure;" a thousand acres on paper, seldom falling short of eleven or twelve hundred in soil.

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