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  2. English brewery cask units - Wikipedia

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    Casks in this size (themselves called firkins) are the most common container for cask ale. firkin (Ale) From the mid 15th century until 1688 the ale firkin was defined as 8 ale or beer gallons (36.97 litres). In 1688 the ale firkin was redefined to be 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 ale or beer gallons (39.28 L). In 1803 ale firkin was again redefined to be 9 ale ...

  3. English wine cask units - Wikipedia

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    The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.

  4. Barrel - Wikipedia

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    The typical bourbon barrel is 53 US gallons (200 L; 44 imp gal) in size, which is thus the de facto standard whiskey barrel size worldwide. [21] [22] Some distillers transfer their whiskey into different barrels to "finish" or add qualities to the final product. These finishing barrels frequently aged a different spirit (such as rum) or wine.

  5. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    Others will rent a regular casket for the duration of the services. These caskets have a removable bed and liner which is replaced after each use. There are also rental caskets with an outer shell that looks like a traditional coffin and a cardboard box that fits inside the shell.

  6. Casket - Wikipedia

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    Casket most often refers to: Coffin, a box used for the display and burial of corpses; Casket (decorative box), a decorated container, usually larger than about 10 centimetres (4 inches) in width and length, but smaller than a "chest" Chasse (casket), a decorated container typically from medieval Europe having a shape that resembles a house

  7. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    [a] Originally defined as the volume of 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of distilled water (under certain conditions), [b] then redefined by the Weights and Measures Act 1985 to be exactly 4.546 09 L (277.4 cu in), the imperial gallon is close in size to the old ale gallon.

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