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Archaic Scales and Measures Unveiled
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Across
- 1. Obsolete weight for precious metals, easily mistaken with a sharp jab.
- 3. British weight unit, as old as shepherds' tales and woolly burdens.
- 4. Greek coin turned unit of mass, once prized in antiquity.
- 5. Agrarian length once defining a furrow's length in old English fields.
- 7. Ancient Near Eastern weight and currency, heavier in historical imagination.
- 12. Biblical forearm unit, measuring from elbow to fingertip.
- 14. Liquid measure smaller than a pint, but not quite a full gulp.
Down
- 2. Ancient Greek liquid measure, less fluid than you'd guess.
- 6. Old French dry measure, primed for counting grains but now outmoded.
- 8. Obsolete unit of dynamic viscosity, now supplanted by SI but still stylish.
- 9. Roman weight once used in apothecaries, sounds like moral hesitation.
- 10. Medieval cloth measure, stretched in the arm's length tradition.
- 11. Surveyor's rod measure that links land and legacy in equal parts.
- 13. Tiny unit once weighing arrows but not to be confused with cereal.
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