cahys

English

Noun

cahys (plural cahyses)

(historical) Obsolete form of cahiz, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 7:
  CAHYS, a dry meaſure for corn, uſed in ſome parts of Spain, particularly at Seville and as Cadiz. It is near a buſhel of our meaſure.

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