Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Italian liquid measure, generally equal to about 18 or 19 gallons.
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They are milked twice in twenty-four hours, ten cows yielding at the two milkings a _brenta_ of milk, which is twenty-four of our gallons.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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