keleh

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Noun

keleh (plural kelehs)

  1. A Middle Eastern unit of volume, 16.5 litres.
    • 1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)
      […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]
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