Alnage vs Ulnage - What's the difference?
alnage | ulnage | Synonyms |
Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
*1896 , , The Clerks
*:Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
*:Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
*:Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
A duty paid for such measurement.
(Webster 1913)
(legal, obsolete, UK) measurement by the ell