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DAKIR

Volume 7 · 58 words · 1842 Edition

in our statutes, is used for the twentieth part of a last of hides. According to the statute of 31 Henry III. De compositione ponderum et mensurarum, a last of hides consists of twenty dakis, and every dakir of ten hides. But by 1 Jac. cap. 33, a last of hides or skins is equal to twelve dozen.