Mudcat Café message #1981255

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Thread #3873 Message #1981255
Posted By: Bonecruncher
27-Feb-07 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Nipperkin and a brown bowl (Barley Mow)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nipperkin and a brown bowl (Barley Mow)

Oxford English Dictionary defines a gill as a quarter-pint, with the proviso that in some parts of UK it is a half-pint.
Same reference defines nipperkin as obsolete, a small measure.
Colyn.