A unit of capacity used for wine from the Rhineland (Mosel, Alsatian, hock), about 40 U.S. gallons, or 150 liters, which is the same capacity it had three centuries ago. Also called an ohm.
AUME; (of Renish Wine) is 40 gallons.
Worlidge, 1704.
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