beasemar

Updated: May 13, 2025

Also they divide the small pound into forty-eight parts, and they call the eight-and-fortieth part a slotnike, by the which slotnike the retailers sell their wares out of their shops, as goldsmiths, grocers, silk-sellers, and such other, like as we do use to retail by the ounce. And as for their great weight, which they call the beasemar, they sell by pode or ship pound.

Richard Hakluyt - Discovery of Muscovy

There are two sorts of pounds in use amongst them the one great, the other small. The great pound is just two small pounds; they call the great weight by the name of beasemar, and the small they call the skallawaight.

Richard Hakluyt - Discovery of Muscovy