boccale

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian boccale. Doublet of bocal and pokal.

Noun

boccale (plural boccales or boccali)

1. (historical) A unit of volume formerly used in Italy, varying by region.
   • 2025 July 10, Lowis D'Aguilar Jackson, Modern Metrology. A Manual of the Metrical Units and Systems of the Present Century with an Apendix Containing a Proposed English System‎, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 146:

     Proceeding to the small commercial liquid-measures devised to meet convenience in the retail sale of liquids, ale, beer, wine, oil, and honey, there is a marked accordance among the whole of the quarts, pots, mass, and crushka of Northern Europe, and the boccale and bozze of Southern Europe; […]