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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]
Cup (6 fluid ounces; [29] named after an everyday drinking cup) Teacup (5 fluid ounces; [31] named after a typical teacup) Coffee cup (2 + 1 / 2 fluid ounces; [31] named after a small cup for serving after‑dinner coffee) Wine glass (2 fluid ounces; [29] [33] named after a small glass for serving liquor)
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.
Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 52.5 imperial gallons (238.669725 L) (63 US gallons), while a hogshead of beer or ale came to be 54 gallons (249.5421 L with the pre-1824 beer and ale gallon, or 245.48886 L with the imperial gallon). A hogshead was also used as unit of measurement for sugar in Louisiana for most of the 19th century.
2 1/2 ounces of favorite, preferred dressing, or vinaigrette (below) 1 ounce cherry tomatoes. 1/2 ounce radish, shaved. 1 teaspoon chives, chopped. Vinaigrette. 3 tbsp olive oil. 1 tbsp sherry ...
Couple that with research that increasingly finds that alcohol isn’t the best for your health, ... Beer, 12 ounces. Hard seltzer, 8-10 ounces. Wine, 5 ounces. Sherry or port, 3-4 ounces. Cordial ...
The quarter of wine was a gallon larger than a hogshead: [15] since the wine gallon was considered to be 231 cubic inches, [17] the measure was 242.27 litres. The ale gallon was 282 cubic inches, [18] meaning the quarter of ale was 295.75 litres. Cardarelli also says it can vary from 17 to 30 imperial gallons for liquor. [19]
Norovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” — because it causes both vomiting and diarrhea — is on the rise across the nation, even as seasonal ...