In Russia, 15th – 20th centuries, a unit of dry
capacity. Recorded in the 15th century in Novgorod the Great. From the 18th-early
20th centuries it was the chief unit of dry
capacity in Russia, = 1⁄8th
of a chetvert, approximately 26.24 liters
(about 2.98 U.S. pecks).
. Also romanized as tchetverik.
UN, 1966.
In Russia, a unit of land area, about 7 square meters (about 1⁄6 acre).
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