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A tobacco hogshead was used in British and American colonial times to transport and store tobacco. It was a very large wooden barrel. It was a very large wooden barrel. A standardized hogshead measured 48 inches (1.22 m) long and 30 inches (76.20 cm) in diameter at the head (at least 550 L or 121 imp gal or 145 US gal, depending on the width in ...
The rod was 15 Anglo-Saxon feet, the furlong 10 rods. An acre was 4 rods × 40 rods, i.e. 160 square rods or 36,000 square Anglo-Saxon feet. ... 2 wine hogshead, 3 ...
The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
1.2 Rods to the Hogshead. 1.3 Economic Happiness. 1.4 Fish-specific units of measurement. 1.5 Volume: Pack of cigarettes. 1.6 Short distance: Hairsbreadth.
In 1688 the ale hogshead was redefined to be 51 ale or beer gallons (235.67875 L). In 1803 the ale hogshead was again redefined to be 54 ale or beer gallons (249.54221 L), equivalent to the beer hogshead. hogshead (Beer) From the mid 15th century until 1824 the beer hogshead was defined as 54 ale or beer gallons.
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
Republican hardliners who normally are ardent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are resisting his push to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, sticking to their belief that government spending ...
The article itself makes this clear - both Rods and Hogsheads are REAL EXISTING measurements. The fact that grandpa uses antiquated measures is a running gag, but not the creation of a neologism. This can be show because of the second qualification - noone goes around using the phrase '40 rods to the hogshead' with any defined meaning of the ...