In Yorkshire, England, a unit of capacity, = 1 peck.
Hoop, sb. a measure, containing a peck, or quarter of a strike. Yorkshire.
John Ray.
A Collection of English Words Not Generally
used, with their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical
Catalogues, the one Of such as are proper to tbe Northern, the other to
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London: Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, 1691.
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Reprinted Glossaries.
London: Trubner, 1873-1874.
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