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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 tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is 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.
Wine barrel 31.5 wine gallons or 1 ⁄ 2 wine hogshead Tierce 42 wine gallons, 1 ⁄ 2 puncheon or 1 ⁄ 3 wine pipe Wine hogshead 2 wine barrels, 63 wine gallons [18] or 1 ⁄ 4 wine tun Puncheon or tertian 2 tierce, 84 wine gallons or 1 ⁄ 3 wine tun Wine pipe or butt 2 wine hogshead, 3 tierce, 7 roundlet or 126 wine gallons Wine tun
A German oak barrel with the capacity of 132 gallons (500 liters) Halbstück A German oak barrel with the capacity of 159 gallons (600 liters) Hogshead A barrel whose capacity varies by region. A hogshead of wine in the US holds 63 US gallons (52 imperial gallons; 240 litres); a hogshead of wine in the UK holds 300 litres (66 imperial gallons ...
A Dutch word meaning "little Fourth"; a measure that was a fourth of a barrel. A small cask similar to the anker. 1 kilderkin = 2 firkins [18 Imp. gal.]: A Dutch word meaning "little quintal"; a measure that was a half of a barrel. 1 barrel = 4 firkins = 2 kilderkins [36 Imp. gal.] 1 hogshead = 6 firkins = 3 kilderkins [54 Imp. gal.]:
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In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
Conversion 1 puncheon = 70-120 ... 1 puncheon = 4/3 Hogshead [2] 1 puncheon = 84 gallons [2] 1 puncheon = 0.317974589856 m 3 or about 318 litres. See also. English ...