falt

See also: fält, falț, and -falt

English

Noun

falt (plural falts)

  1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205:
      ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

falt

  1. simple past of falle
  2. past participle of falle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

falt

  1. neuter singular of fal

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *falþō, whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.

Noun

falt f

  1. fold

Descendants

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish folt.

Noun

falt f (genitive fuilt)

  1. hair, specifically that on the head.
    Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàin ― Young Maiden of the Fair Hair

Swedish

Adjective

falt

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of fal.

See also
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