Pint

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 190

Pint, a measure of capacity used both for liquids and dry goods, and equivalent to the eighth part of a Gallon (q.v.), or 34.65925 cubic inches. The Scotch pint, superseded as a legal measure by the imperial pint, was equivalent to 3.0065 imperial pints.

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