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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
The maund of Guzerat and Bombay, equal to 1 ⁄ 4 cwt. or 28 pounds and divided into 40 seers of smaller grade. The maund of Southern India, fixed by the Madras government at 25 lbs. avoir. There are, however many other varieties of maund, from 15 to 64 seers in weight; which it is unnecessary to particularize.
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [ 2 ] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton , producing a " short ton " of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a " long ton " of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
Edward Bright (1721–1750) and Daniel Lambert (1770–1809), men from England who were famous in their time for their obesity.; Happy Humphrey, the heaviest professional wrestler, weighing in at 410 kg (900 lb; 64 st 8 lb) at his peak.
Stones, and every Stone to weigh xiv. l. The third development is a set of 14th-century bronze weights at the Westgate Museum in Winchester, England. The weights are in denominations of 7 pounds (corresponding to a unit known as the clip or wool-clip), 14 pounds (stone), 56 pounds (4 stone) and 91 pounds ( 1 ⁄ 4 sack or woolsack).
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At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash-landed in the village, the Kenya Space Agency said in a statement.
In Scotland, the caber is usually made from a larch tree, and it can be between 16–20 feet (5–6 metres) tall and weigh 90–150 pounds (40–70 kilograms). [1] [2] The term "caber" derives from the Gaelic word cabar, which refers to a wooden beam. [1] The person tossing the caber is called a "tosser" or a "thrower". [3]