auner

An archaic verb meaning to measure cloth using an aune, an old French unit of length used by drapers before the metric system — entirely obsolete outside historical or literary texts.

• Le drapier aunait le tissu avant de le vendre. — The draper measured the cloth before selling it.
• Ce terme n'apparaît plus que dans les textes anciens. — This term now only appears in old texts.
• Auner une pièce d'étoffe était le geste quotidien du marchand. — Measuring a piece of cloth by the aune was the merchant's everyday gesture.

Auner disappeared from real use once France adopted the metric system in the late 18th century — a learner will never need it in modern conversation; it survives only in historical or etymological contexts.