sextary

In medieval England, a unit of liquid capacity, clearly derived from the Roman sextarius

Sextary, s. A measure, generally estimated at a pint and a half.

Thomas Wright.
A Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English Vol 2.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1886.
Page 841.

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