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2. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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   A US fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 16 ⁠ of a US pint (about 1·04 UK fluid ounces or 29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 20 ⁠ of a UK pint (about 0·96 US fluid ounce or 28.4 mL). On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, a UK gallon is 8 UK pints (160 UK fluid ounces; about 1·2 US gallons or 4.546 litres), whereas the US gallon is ...

3. Wine glass - Wikipedia

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   As a supplemental unit of apothecary measure and as a culinary measurement unit, the wine glass (also known as wineglass, wineglassful (pl. wineglassesful), or cyathus vinarius in pharmaceutical Latin) is defined as 2 US customary fluid ounces [22] [23] (⁠ 1 / 8 ⁠ of a US customary pint; about 2·08 British imperial fluid ounces or 59·15mL ...

4. Gallon - Wikipedia

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   The wine, fluid, or liquid gallon has been the standard US gallon since the early 19th century [citation needed]. The wine gallon, which some sources relate to the volume occupied by eight medieval merchant pounds of wine, was at one time defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter, i.e. 6 in × ( ⁠3 + 1 / 2 ...

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

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   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 ...

6. English wine cask units - Wikipedia

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   [nb 2] Note that a 252-gallon tun of wine has a mass of approximately 2060 pounds, [6] between a short ton (2000 pounds) and a long ton (2240 pounds). The tun is approximately the volume of a cylinder with both diameter and height of 42 inches, as the gallon was originally a cylinder with diameter of 7 inches and height of 6.

7. Dry gallon - Wikipedia

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   The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an ...