sextary

From Middle English sextarie, sextary, anglicized from Latin sextārius (“pint”). Doublet of sextarius.

sextary (plural sextaries)

1. (historical) Synonym of sextarius, an ancient Roman unit of volume
2. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon unit of liquid measure, chiefly used for wine and cider.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 172:

     The sextary seems to have contained 6 gallons, and is also used for cider and wine.

• (English unit): gallon (⅙ sextary)

• sextus
• six

For sextonry.

sextary (plural sextaries)

1. (obsolete) A sacristy.

• sextry

• “sextary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.