FAT likewise denotes an uncertain measure of capacity. Thus a fat of ising glass contains from 3 hundred weight to 4 hundred weight; a fat of unbound books, half a maund or four bales; of wire, from 20 to 25 hundred weight; and of yarn, from 220 to 221 bundles.
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