dry measure

1. 1.

   a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain)

   Synonymsdry unit

   Broadervolume unit

   NarrowerBritish capacity unitardebephahUnited States dry unit

Questions about dry measure

What does dry measure mean?

dry measure means "a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain)".

What is another word for dry measure?

Close synonyms include dry unit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry measure a common word?

dry measure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.