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Forgotten Measures of Ancient Trade
Explore a crossword uncovering rare and obsolete measurement units once used in commerce, science, and daily life across civilizations.
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  • 1. Old unit of area used in roofing equal to 100 square feet
  • 3. Large cask used as a volume measure for liquids
  • 4. Ancient Egyptian length roughly the distance from elbow to fingertip
  • 6. Old English land measurement unit
  • 8. One of the smallest old units of length based on grain size
  • 11. Unit used in weighing precious metals and medicines
  • 12. Unit of liquid volume, one quarter of a pint
  • 18. Unit for measuring horse height
Down
  • 2. Unit of weight and volume, often for wool or grain
  • 5. Nautical measure of water depth, roughly six feet
  • 7. Obsolete unit for dry volume measure
  • 9. Ancient Roman rod or staff-based length unit
  • 10. Long-distance unit based on the distance a person can walk in an hour
  • 13. Small volume measurement used in pharmacy
  • 14. Old measurement of land area also called a rod
  • 15. Old English unit of cloth measurement
  • 16. Old measure for beer or butter
  • 17. Surveying measurement equal to 66 feet
  • 19. Traditional unit of length equal to 16.5 feet

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