English

Noun

falt ‎(plural falts)

1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205:

     ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.

Anagrams

• flat

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

falt

1. simple past of falle
2. past participle of falle

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *falþō, whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.

Noun

falt f

1. fold

Descendants

• German: Falte

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish folt.

Noun

falt f ‎(genitive fuilt)

1. (Human) hair, and specifically that on the head.

   Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàin‎ ― Young Maiden of the Fair Hair

Swedish

Adjective

falt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of fal.

See also

• -faldig
• -falt
• falta
• trefalt