Also 8 wedro. [Russ. ведрó pail.] A Russian liquid measure equal to 2.7 imperial gallons.
1753. Hanway, Trav., VI. lxxxi. (1762), I. 371. 8 Krushquas, 1 wedro—13 english quarts.
1799. W. Tooke, View Russian Emp., II. 523. The greater part was then already podraded (contracted) for at 148 kopecks for every vedro.
1802–3. trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), I. 234. Boiled in large kettles containing from forty to forty-three Russian vedros, or eimers, of water.
1833. R. Pinkerton, Russia, 77. The … distilleries … issue about twenty-five millions of vedros.
1907. Edin. Rev., Jan., 224. The peasants of that province … drank this year 62,924 vedros of vodka more than last.
