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Forgotten Measures of Historic Scales
Explore the hidden world of obsolete measurement units once common in trade, science, and daily life across history.
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  • 2. Unit of length used in land measurement, 66 feet
  • 3. Unit of weight, one-fourth of a hundredweight
  • 4. Surveying length measure equal to 16.5 feet
  • 5. Small unspecified quantity, archaic measure
  • 8. Oldweight unit for trading wool or coal
  • 11. Weight unit also used as a small measure of alcohol
  • 13. Old measure of distance roughly three miles
Down
  • 1. Typographic measurement equal to 1/6 inch
  • 6. Nautical depth measure equal to six feet
  • 7. Measure of height typically used for horses, 4 inches
  • 9. Tiny unit of mass based on cereal seed weight
  • 10. Large cask size used for liquids like tobacco or wine
  • 12. Unit of distance once used in horse racing, 1/8 mile
  • 14. Ancient Greek and Roman weight for precious metals
  • 15. Unit of dry volume, one quarter of a bushel

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