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UNITED STATES DRY UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("United States dry unit" is a kind of...):
dry measure; dry unit (a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "United States dry unit"):
dry pint; pint (a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches)
dry quart; quart (a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches)
peck (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)
bushel (a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches)
