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English

Alternative spellings
mitta

Noun
mett

1. an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.

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#:* 1866: Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.

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