Lexicographical Neighbors of Lispund
Literary usage of Lispund
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The General Grievances and Oppression of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland by James Mackenzie (1836)
"Also in the same account, the price of the Barrel is all over stated at 24 libs,
whilst the price of the lispund is all over 2 lib. ..."
2. The Diary of the Reverend John Mill: Minister of the Parishes of Dunrossness by John Mill (1889)
"By 1 ox ,£>10 0 0 By six Geese 1 16 0 By six lispund meal . ... convertible into
sterling money in the same ratio:—] 1 lispund Salt £0 16 0 1 ..."
3. A Brage-beaker with the Swedes: Or, Notes from the North in 1852 by Blanchard Jerrold (1854)
"1 tunna 12 „ I lispund 1 livre 1 tunna 1 livre Import Duties in Bank Crowns.
esr 100 016 20 0 0 080 0 40 0 030 008 010 0 16 0 0 ..."
4. Maritime Geography and Statistics by James Hingston Tuckey (1815)
"Weights. 8 ounce* .... 1 mark. 2 marks I pound. 10 pound 1 stone of wool or fea"
thers. ' 20 pound...... 1 stone of flax. 16 pound 1 lispund. ..."
5. Kirkwall in the Orkneys by Buckham Hugh Hossack (1900)
"He added one-fifth to the enlarged lispund, bringing it up to eighteen pounds.
Thus, under these two autocrats, the earldom revenues were in two steps ..."
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