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  2. Bushel - Wikipedia

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    A full bushel is represented by a basket in the lower right. A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat. In modern usage ...

  3. Dry measure - Wikipedia

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    There are also special measures for specific goods, such as the cord of wood, the sack, the bale of wool or cotton, the box of fruit, etc. Because it is difficult to measure actual volume and easy to measure mass, many of these units are now also defined as units of mass, specific to each commodity, so a bushel of apples is a different weight ...

  4. Coomb (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A coomb was 16 stone (100 kg) for barley and 18 stone (110 kg) for wheat. The US grain markets quote prices as cents per bushel, and a US bushel of grain is about 61 lb (28 kg), which would approximately correspond to the 4-bushel coomb (4 × 61 lb = 244 lb ≈ 111 kg).

  5. Glossary of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    1. A container used for fruit or other produce leaving a packinghouse. [2] 2. A unit of mass or volume representing a standardized size of these containers, equal to 425 pounds (193 kilograms) or 4 ⁄ 5 US bushel (6.4 US dry gallons), respectively. [2] cash crop. Also profit crop.

  6. Quarter (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In measures of length, the quarter (qr.) was ¼ of a yard, formerly an important measure in the cloth trade. [3] [4] [5] 3 qr. was a Flemish ell, 4 quarters were a yard, 5 qr. was an (English) ell, and 6 qr. was an aune or French ell.

  7. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Although etymologically related to the English unit bushel, the French bushel is about one third the size. A boisseau was defined as 10 ⁄ 27 of a cubic pied du roi. minot: 3 38.09 dm 3: 8.38 imp gal 8.65 U.S. dry gal mine: 6 76.17 dm 3: 16.76 imp gal 17.29 U.S. dry gal setier: 12 152.3 dm 3

  8. Tree volume measurement - Wikipedia

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    Tree volume is one of many parameters that are measured to document the size of individual trees. Tree volume measurements serve a variety of purposes, some economic, some scientific, and some for sporting competitions. Measurements may include just the volume of the trunk, or the volume of the trunk and the branches depending on the detail ...

  9. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    bushel: 4 şinik: 37 L (9.8 US gal) Weight. Local name In English Equivalence In modern units kırat: قيراط carat: 0.2004 g (1.002 carats) dirhem: درهم