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Forgotten Measures of Bygone Eras
A crossword exploring historical and obsolete units of measurement once used across cultures and trades.
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Across
  • 1. Large barrel unit used for liquids like wine or beer
  • 4. Old apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
  • 7. Small unit of weight, about 64.8 milligrams
  • 8. Less common unit historically used for measuring cloth
  • 9. Ancient length unit based on the forearm
  • 10. Scottish obsolete unit of length equal to a span
  • 12. A land measure equivalent to 16.5 feet
Down
  • 2. Rare obsolete measure historically linked with volume
  • 3. Unit of length equal to 66 feet, used in land surveying
  • 5. Unit used in navigation, about 1.852 kilometers
  • 6. Old English unit of distance, roughly 220 yards
  • 11. An old British unit of weight, one-fourth of a hundredweight
  • 13. Typographic unit once broadly used in printing
  • 14. Medieval unit of length for measuring cloth, about 45 inches
  • 15. Ancient Middle Eastern unit of weight
  • 16. Ancient unit of mass and value

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