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Cryptic Scales and Ancient Measures
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  • 1. Ancient agrarian length equal to a furrow long
  • 2. Unit named after a Swedish physicist, measures atomic scale lengths
  • 3. An obscure unit for angular measurement used in ancient astronomical studies
  • 4. Roman unit implying a field’s worth of plowing, about a quarter of a hectare
  • 7. Surveyor’s length unit of 66 feet, crucial for land plotting
  • 10. Apothecary unit, a small measure with moral overtones
  • 12. Ancient Greek weight roughly equivalent to a coin’s worth
  • 15. Distance once defined as the maximum a person could walk in an hour
  • 16. Volume for dry measures, a quarter of a bushel
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  • 5. Weight or currency unit from antiquity, hefty and valuable
  • 6. Gemstone weight measure, not to be confused with purity
  • 8. Unit in typography, an unusual measure of type size, also a synonym for common
  • 9. Large cask volume measure, also a notorious whiskey barrel size
  • 11. British unit of weight often used for measuring people
  • 13. Body-based ancient measure from elbow to fingertip
  • 14. Venetian volume measure for liquids, a trickling stream of quantity
  • 17. A penalty measure once used in English courts, derived from a financial fine
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