In Ireland, an informal unit of capacity, the amount that can be held on the open palm, fingers slightly curled.
Terence Patrick Dolan.
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English. The Irish Use of English.
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1998.
Page 93.
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