Forlet vs Forpet - What's the difference?
forlet | forpet |
To forget.
(dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
* 1807 , Letters from a young Farmer to his Father'', ''The Farmer's Magazine , Volume 8, Edinburgh,
* 1816 , James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow , Volume 2,
* 1829 , George Robertson, Rural Recollections ,
As a verb forlet
is .As a noun forpet is
(dated|scotland) a quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.forlet
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* * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Verb
- to forlet your sins
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* * English words prefixed with for-forpet
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* forpitNoun
(en noun)page 472,
- Now, as I learned afterwardsthat straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets' of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three ' forpets ; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure.
page 221,
- The forpet , or one-fourth part of a peck, contains 3 Scotch standard pints and one choppin, is 7¾ inches diameter at the bottom, 6¾ inches at the mouth, and 9? inches deep.
page 313,
- they were gradually disposed of during the winter and ensuing spring, on the Edinburgh street—hawked about in carts, or sold to hucksters, who re-sold them to the town's people, in forpets''''' and ''half-'''forpets , at a small advance in price, (about a shilling on a boll,) to reimburse them for their trouble.