struck measure

American  

noun

1. a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.

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struck measure British  

noun

1. a measure of grain, etc, in which the contents are made level with the top of the container rather than being heaped

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Etymology

Origin of struck measure

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

As respects the last, the colony never gave "struck measure;" a thousand acres on paper, seldom falling short of eleven or twelve hundred in soil.

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