Explore the lost world of antiquated measurement units once used across history in this crossword puzzle.
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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