Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AWM, or AUM
AWM, or AUM, n. [D. aam; G. ahm.]
A Dutch liquid measure, containing eight steckans, or twenty verges or verteels, equal to the English tierce, the sixth of a French tun, and the seventh of an English tun, or thirty-six gallons. – Encyc. Arbuthnot.
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