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1.137 litres (L) 40 imp oz: 2 imperial pints, 1 imperial quart, or a quarter of an imperial gallon. Referred to as a "40" or “40-pounder” in Canada (as in 40 Imperial ounces; also used for spirits) and a litre in the United States. 40 (US) 1.183 L: 40 US fl oz: 2.08 imp pt: 2.5 US liquid pints. Might have been inspired by the Canadian 40 ...
The system was originally based on the ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (4.62 L; 1.22 US gal). In United Kingdom and its colonies, with the adoption of the imperial system in 1824, the units were redefined in terms of the slightly smaller imperial gallon (1.2 US gal; 4.5 L). The older units continued in use in the United States.
The common 55-gallon size of drum for storing and transporting various products and wastes is sometimes confused with a barrel, though it is not a standard measure. In the U.S., single servings of beverages are usually measured in fluid ounces. Milk is usually sold in half-pints (8 fluid ounces), pints, quarts, half gallons, and gallons.
pinch (imperial) ≡ 1 ⁄ 384 gi (imp) = 1 ⁄ 2 dash (imp) = 369.961 751 302 08 3 × 10 −9 m 3: pinch (US) ≡ 1 ⁄ 96 US fl oz = 1 ⁄ 2 US dash = 308.057 599 609 375 × 10 −9 m 3: pint (imperial) pt (imp) ≡ 1 ⁄ 8 gal (imp) = 568.261 25 × 10 −6 m 3: pint (US dry) pt (US dry) ≡ 1 ⁄ 64 bu (US lvl) ≡ 1 ⁄ 8 gal (US dry) = 550 ...
Prior to metrication, in the United Kingdom, the standard single measure of spirits in a pub was 1 ⁄ 6 gill (23.7 mL) in England and Northern Ireland, and either 1 ⁄ 5 gill (28.4 mL) or 1 ⁄ 4 gill (35.5 mL) in Scotland. After metrication, this was replaced by measures of either 25 or 35 millilitres (0.176 or 0.246 gi), at the discretion ...
The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings). The "wineglassful"—an official unit of the apothecaries' system of weights —is much smaller at 2.5 imp fl oz (71 mL ).
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.
A mnemonic for its volume relative to an imperial pint is "a litre of water's a pint and three-quarters"; this is very close, as a litre is exactly 800000 ⁄ 454609 imperial pints. A cubic foot has an exact volume of 28.316846592 litres.