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There was no standardised "stone" in the ancient Jewish world, [8] but in Roman times stone weights were crafted to multiples of the Roman pound. [9] Such weights varied in quality: the Yale Medical Library holds 10- and 50-pound examples of polished serpentine, [10] while a 40-pound example at the Eschborn Museum is made of sandstone. [11]
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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). [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The 91-pound weight is thought to have been commissioned by Edward III in conjunction with the statute of 1350, while the other weights are thought ...
Akbar standardised weights and measurements using a barley corn (Jau). For weights, he used the weight of a Jau, while the width of a Jau set the standard for length. 1. Length: Ilahi Gaz (33 to 34 inches or 840 to 860 millimetres); 1 Gaz = 16 Grehs; 1 Greh = 2 pais At the time of Shah Jahan there existed three different Gaz: [1]
The same unit was used for the jasper weighing stone of the First Intermediate Period king Nebkaure Khety. From the Middle Kingdom date deben weight units used for particular metals, referred to as copper deben and gold deben, the former being about twice as heavy (27 g (0.95 oz; 0.87 ozt)) as the latter.
The definition of units of weight above a pound differed between the customary and the imperial system - the imperial system employed the stone of 14 pounds, the hundredweight of 8 stone [Note 6] and the ton of 2240 pounds (20 hundredweight), while the customary system of units did not employ the stone but has a hundredweight of 100 pounds and ...
Today only the stone continues in customary use for measuring personal body weight. The present stone is 14 pounds (~6.35 kg), but an earlier unit appears to have been 16 pounds (~7.25 kg). The other units were multiples of 2, 8, and 160 times the stone, or 28, 112, and 2240 pounds (~12.7 kg, 50.8 kg, 1016 kg), respectively.
Weight class name Upper limit Gender Atomweight 107 lb (48.534 kg) Feminine Strawweight 112 lb (50.802 kg) Feminine / Masculine Flyweight 117 lb (53.070 kg) Feminine / Masculine Bantamweight 122 lb (55.338 kg) Feminine / Masculine Featherweight 127 lb (57.606 kg) Feminine / Masculine Lightweight 132 lb (59.874 kg) Feminine / Masculine