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Definition of Great hundred
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and twelve.
Definition of Great hundred
1. Noun. (historical) or Long Hundred: One hundred and twenty (120), 12 x 10; usually defined as six score to the hundred (hundred= 100, five score to the hundred). Is mainly found in Northern England, Scotland, for counting wood and cloth. Also common in Icelandic sagas and land taxation. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Hundred
Literary usage of Great hundred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"... and the twelfth section (after reciting that the hundred in every county be
not alike, some reckoning by the great hundred, or six score, and others by ..."
2. Northern Antiquities: Or, A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion by Paul Henri Mallet, Thomas Percy, Johann Göransson (1809)
"... But they fccm to have confounded their ancient manner of computation with the
modern, fince they make their -great hundred to ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"The last score of the ' great hundred ' is reached at I2O, formerly called six
vingts, or six score, as noted by Littre, sv ' Vingt. ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1899)
"I have converted the quotations which were in shillings per great hundred of 10
dozens, into cents per dozen. French Extra 31 to 34 cents per doz. ..."
5. Domesday Studies: Being the Papers Read at the Meeting of the Domesday by Patrick Edward Dove (1888)
"According to Fleta, the carucate in one field of a three-field manor was 60 acres,
which would be 72 by the great hundred, while in a two-field manor it was ..."
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