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Definition: AUNCEL

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Auncel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)


Extended Definition: AUNCEL

Auncel

An auncel (from the Anglo-Fr. auncelle, a confused derivation from l'auncelle, Ital. lancella, "a little balance"), is a balance formerly used in England; now, in dialectical use, a term for the weighing of meat by hand instead of by scales.


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  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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