Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An acetabulum; a measure of about one eighth of a pint. Holland.
  • noun In anatomy, same as acetabulum, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An ancient Roman measure equivalent to about one eighth of a pint.
  • noun An acetabulum.

Etymologies

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An Anglicisation of the Latin acetabulum.

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