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  2. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.

  3. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Spat – a unit of length equal to 1,000,000,000 km (620,000,000 mi) Stadion; Step; Unglie; Vara – an Aragonese, Spanish, and Portuguese unit [3] Yojana – a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India. Its value was about 10 km (6.2 mi), although the exact value is disputed among scholars (between 8 and 13 km or 5 and 8 mi)

  4. Grain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A box of .38 Special (9.1 mm) cartridges that have 148-grain (9.6 g) bullets. Grains are commonly used to measure the mass of bullets and propellants. [11] [12] In archery, the grain is the standard unit used to weigh arrows. [13] In North America, the hardness of water is often measured in grains per U.S. gallon (gpg) of calcium carbonate ...

  5. Apothecaries' system - Wikipedia

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    English-speaking countries also used a system of units of fluid measure, or in modern terminology volume units, based on the apothecaries' system. Originally, the terms and symbols used to describe the volume measurements of liquids were the same as or similar to those used to describe weight measurements of solids [33] (for example, the pound by weight and the fluid pint were both referred to ...

  6. Large intestine - Wikipedia

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    The large intestine, ... About 1.5 litres or 45 ounces of water arrives in the colon each day. ... there are an average of about 1,725 to 2,530 cells per colonic crypt.

  7. Bushel - Wikipedia

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    The modern American or US bushel is rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, a difference of less than one part per ten million. [ 5 ] In English use, a bushel was a round willow basket with fixed dimensions, and its inside measurements were as follows - base diameter 12 inches, top diameter 18 inches, height 12 inches - thus giving a volume of ...

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  9. Rye - Wikipedia

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    World trade of rye is low compared with other grains such as wheat. The total export of rye for 2016 was $186 million [32] compared with $30.1 billion for wheat. [33] Poland consumes the most rye per person at 32.4 kg (71 lb) per capita (2009), followed by the Nordic and Baltic countries. The EU in general is around 5.6 kg (12 lb) per capita.