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The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an ...
A box of .38 Special (9.1 mm) cartridges that have 148-grain (9.6 g) bullets. Grains are commonly used to measure the mass of bullets and propellants. [11] [12] In archery, the grain is the standard unit used to weigh arrows. [13] In North America, the hardness of water is often measured in grains per U.S. gallon (gpg) of calcium carbonate ...
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, the volume is nominal, with bushels denoting a mass defined ...
In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.
Spat – a unit of length equal to 1,000,000,000 km (620,000,000 mi) Stadion; Step; Unglie; Vara – an Aragonese, Spanish, and Portuguese unit [3] Yojana – a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India. Its value was about 10 km (6.2 mi), although the exact value is disputed among scholars (between 8 and 13 km or 5 and 8 mi)
22 — Size of Winchester bushel "every round bushel with a plain and even bottom being 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 ″ wide throughout and 8″ deep" (i.e. a dry measure of 2150 in 3 per gallon). 1706 6 Ann. c. 11 — Act of Union decreed the weights and measures of England to be applied in Scotland, whose burgs (towns) were to take charge of the duplicates ...
Yields were referred to in coombs per acre. A coomb was 16 stone (100 kg) for barley and 18 stone (110 kg) for wheat. 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 ...