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  2. Gill (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz, one of the ingredients required for a magic spell is a gill of water from a dark well.In chapter 19, the obscure unit is used for humor including a pun with the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", which also involved a well.

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, when describing volumes, recipes commonly give measurements in breakfast cups (8 fluid ounces; named after a cup for drinking tea or coffee while eating breakfast), [29] [30] teacups (5 fluid ounces), [31] and coffee cups (2 1 ⁄ 2 fluid ounces; named after a small cup for after‑dinner coffee served to aid digestion). [32]

  4. Gallon - Wikipedia

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    The corn or dry gallon is used (along with the dry quart and pint) in the United States for grain and other dry commodities. It is one-eighth of the (Winchester) bushel, originally defined as a cylindrical measure of ⁠18 + 1 / 2 ⁠ inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth, which made the bushel 8 in × ( ⁠9 + 1 / 4 ⁠ in) 2 × π ≈ 2150 ...

  5. Here's How Many Cups of Tea You Should Drink Daily To Slow ...

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    It's important to note that the researchers defined one cup of tea as 200 ml, which is right below 7 oz, so consuming three of their "cups" equates to roughly 21 fl oz or 2.6 eight-ounce U.S. cups.

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

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    US dry measures Metric measures fluid ounces Imperial fluid ounce (fl oz) ≡ 1 imp fl oz. ≈ 0.960 759 940 40 US fl oz ≈ 0.947 102 083 33 US fl oz (food) ≡ 28.413 0625 mL ≡ 0.028 413 0625 L. US fluid ounce (customary) (fl oz) ≈ 1.040 842 730 79 imp fl oz. ≡ 1 US fl oz ≡ 0.985 784 318 75 US fl oz (food) ≡ 29.573 529 5625 mL

  7. 10 One-Ingredient Upgrades For The Best Thanksgiving ... - AOL

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    For many families, ... combine 1 gallon of sweet tea with 1 cup kosher salt, 3 large quartered sweet onions, 4 sliced lemons, 8 peeled garlic cloves, 5 sprigs of rosemary, and 10 cups of ice. Let ...

  8. Fluid ounce - Wikipedia

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    The US fluid ounce is based on the US gallon, which in turn is based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches that was used in the United Kingdom prior to 1824. With the adoption of the international inch , the US fluid ounce became 1 ⁄ 128 gal × 231 in 3 /gal × (2.54 cm/in) 3 = 29.5735295625 mL exactly, or about 4% larger than the imperial unit.

  9. Approximate measures - Wikipedia

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    wineglassful = about 2 fl oz; tablespoonful = about 1/2 fl oz; dessertspoonful = about 2 fl dr; teaspoonful = about 1 fl dr; drop = about minim; teacupful (5 fl oz, or 1 gill ibid) wineglassful (2-1/2 fl oz or 1/2 gill or 1/2 teacupful or 1/4 tumblerful) dessertspoonful (1/4 fl oz or 2 fl dr and equal to 2 teaspoonful or 1/2 tablespoonful)