chaldrick (chaldrik)

[E. dial., also chal der; origin obscure.] A name in the Orkney islands for the oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus ostralegus. Montagu. chaldron1 (chal'dron), n. [A ibilated form of caldron, equal, by a of Charles II., to 36 coal bushels, or 254 hundredweight, but customarily in England to 32 heaped bushels. The Newcastle chaldron is 524 or 53 hundredweight. In American ports the weight is very various, but the ordinary weight in the United States is 261 hundredweight. See chaudron.