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The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Medieval Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, [1] oil or honey. 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. [2]
[nb 1] (This was the basis for calling 64 gallons a quarter.) At some time before the 15th century, it was reduced to 252 gallons, so as to be evenly divisible by other small integers, including seven. [nb 2] Note that a 252-gallon tun of wine has a mass of approximately 2060 pounds, [4] between a short ton (2000 pounds) and a long ton (2240 ...
The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) by various definitions. [ 1 ] Equivalents
1.35107 pints 2 ခွက် hkwet: 1.27859 L: 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 qt: 1.35107 qt 2 ပြည် pyi: 2.55718 L 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 qt 2.70214 qt 2 စိတ် seit: 10.2287 L 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 gallons 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 pecks: 2.70214 gallons 1.16106 pecks 4 ခွဲ: hkwe: 20.4574 L 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 gallons 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 pecks 5.40428 gallons 2.32213 pecks 2 တင်း: tin ...
Wine was measured with units based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches (3.785 L), beer was measured with units based on an ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (4.621 L) and grain was measured with the Winchester measure with a gallon of approximately 268.8 cubic inches (one eighth of a Winchester bushel or 4.405 L). In 1824, these units were ...
Britain's North American colonies adopted the British wine gallon, defined in 1707 as 231 cubic inches exactly (3 in × 7 in × 11 in) as their basic liquid measure, from which the US wet pint is derived; and the British corn gallon (1 ⁄ 8 of a standard "Winchester" bushel of corn, or 268.8 cubic inches) as its dry measure, from which the US ...
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[7] [8] A US liquid gallon can contain about 3.785 kilograms or 8.34 pounds of water at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F), and is about 16.7% less than the imperial gallon. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart and 16 US fluid ounces in a US pint, which makes the US fluid ounce equal to 1 / 128 of a US gallon.