Lexic.us

Definition of Dry quart

1. Noun. A United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Quart

Literary usage of Dry quart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"(c) The dry quart shall contain-sixty-seven and two-tenths cubic inches. [39 Stat. L. 673.} SEC. 3. [Interstate shipments — failure to conform to Act ..."

2. Strawberry-growing by Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher (1917)
"In the United States, a legal dry quart contains sixty-seven and one- fifth cubic inches, level measure; a legal liquid quart — commonly called wine measure ..."

3. The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale (1920)
"Some of the States had laws making the dry quart the legal measure for berries and small fruits, the offering of such commodities in baskets of other ..."

4. Information Annual ...: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events (1917)
"The dry quart contains approximately one-third greater capacity than the "wine" or ... The bill took as its standard the "dry" quart and fractions thereof. ..."

5. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1914)
"... a litre being В per cent larger than our liquid quart and 10 per cent smaller than the dry quart. A litre of water weighs exactly a kilogram, I. *. ..."

6. The Stone-Millis Arithmetics by John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis (1914)
"The dry quart is larger than the liquid quart. The dry quart contains 67.2 cu. in., while the liquid quart contains only 57.75 cu. in. ..."

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