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2. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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   The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

3. Rope (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The Byzantine equivalent, the schoinion or "little rope", varied between 60 and 72 Greek feet depending upon the location. The Thai sen of 20 Thai fathoms or 40 m also means and is translated "rope". The Somerset rope was a former English unit used in drainage and hedging. It was 20 feet (now precisely 6.096 m). [1] [2]

4. Fid - Wikipedia

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   In addition to holding rope open to assist the creation of a rope splice, modern push fids have markings for precise measurements in a variety of sizes of rope. The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A one-half-inch (12.7 mm) diameter rope would have any accompanying fid 10.5–11 in (266.7 ...

5. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   American surveyors use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4 rods, each of 16.5 ft or 100 links of 0.66 feet. A link is abbreviated "lk", and links "lks", in old deeds and land surveys done for the government.

6. Rope - Wikipedia

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   Because rope has a long history, many systems have been used to specify the size of a rope. In systems that use the inch ( Imperial and US customary measurement systems ), large ropes over 1 inch (25.4 mm) diameter – such as those used on ships – are measured by their circumference in inches; smaller ropes have a nominal diameter based on ...

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