It's a place where a chaldron is a ceramic object of mystic power, not a volumetric measure of coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

He took part in the contest, and in spite of his early reputation, was spelled down on the word "chaldron," which he spelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

Let your sauce be chaldron for a Swan, and serve it in saucers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

The impost of twelve pence a chaldron on coals brought into the port of.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

Company and could supply his friends and the public with the best coals at — s. per chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

Dry Measure. -- 2 pints make 1 quart, 8 quarts make 1 peck, 4 pecks make 1 bushel, 36 bushels make 1 chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He tells us that the coal duty, which was on sea-borne coal, was 1s. 6d. per chaldron, whereof four-fifths went to St. Paul's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

Richmond, and his heirs, a duty of one shilling a chaldron on coals, which continued in his family till it was purchased by government in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829] Reference

From good authority we are informed that Kippax and Haigh-Moor coals can be delivered at Bolton-Percy for ten shillings per chaldron, or 8s. to 8s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

Ribston, for 13s. 6d. per chaldron, a circumstance not unlikely to make it in great demand, whenever its properties are known for agricultural purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

The present cost by way of Boroughbridge, is one pound five shillings, and hence the saving to the public on every ton, or chaldron of coals, will be nine shillings, except the merchants 'profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

Wherein there is little doubt but a saving of eight shillings per chaldron will, on the completion of the work, be effected -- a most material object for the poor, and the general benefit of commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

'Why,' tayn't four hundred chaldron, Captin, 'rejoined Mr. Levison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference

The rest we intend to sell, we having above ten chaldron between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

And every chaldron of culm carried coaftwife, if ufually fold by weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by persons of eminence in the law; comprising a greater variety than any other work of this kind extant] Reference

And every chaldron of foreign coals ufually fold by meafure 4 s. 6d. by 1 Ann. c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by persons of eminence in the law; comprising a greater variety than any other work of this kind extant] Reference

Each chaldron-waggon had a man in charge of it, and was originally drawn by one horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

Why, Baron Squash takes ten thousand chaldron of us every year; but he has such a knack, he gits the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference

"Nay, lad," said one, "yow could buy better than they at pit's mouth for eight shillings a chaldron.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patience Wins War in the Works] Reference

Called up by people come to deliver in ten chaldron of coals, brought in one of our prizes from Newcastle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

Anti-Cinder Coal Company and could supply his friends and the public with the best coals at -- s. per chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

This locomotive drew sixteen chaldron waggons containing an aggregate weight of seventy tons, at the rate of about three miles an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

No. 2: It was my first green chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 November 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

"Yes; that is, we have no coals, but we take orders, and have half-a-crown a chaldron for our trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple] Reference

A chaldron of coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

Cost per 0 10 0 chaldron of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

Toll-bar the chaldron of lime is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee] Reference

Calves chaldron Pie with Puddings in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex] Reference

23s. per chaldron, a good hearing, I thank God-having not been put to buy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667] Reference

1344) It was not long before the court determined to apply to parliament for an imposition of twelve pence a chaldron on coals brought into the Port of.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

10s. per chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667] Reference

1 chaldron, marked ch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,] Reference

II, c. 11) to two shillings a chaldron.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

His is purest, if a mark more the chaldron. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference