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2. Cord (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada. A cord is the amount of wood that, when "racked and well stowed" (arranged so pieces are aligned, parallel, touching and compact), occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet (3.62 m 3). [1] This corresponds to a well-stacked woodpile 4 ...

3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   A cord is the amount of wood that, when "ranked and well stowed" (arranged so pieces are aligned, parallel, touching and compact), occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet (3.62 m 3). [44] This corresponds to a well-stacked woodpile, 4 feet deep by 4 feet high by 8 feet wide (122 cm × 122 cm × 244 cm), or any other arrangement of linear ...

4. Stere - Wikipedia

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   The stere or stère (st) is a unit of volume in the original metric system equal to one cubic metre. The stere is typically used for measuring large quantities of firewood or other cut wood, [ 1 ] while the cubic meter is used for uncut wood. [ 2 ] The name was coined from the Greek στερεός stereós, "solid", in 1795 in France as a ...

5. Faggot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   A long faggot was also called a kidd faggot, [5] kid, kide, or kidde being Middle English for firewood in bundles. [6] A fascine (or bavin [3]) is a type of long faggot which is approximately 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 m) long and 8 to 9 inches (20 to 23 cm) in diameter and used to maintain earthworks such as trenches. [7] [8] [9]

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7. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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   Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to ...