Explore the lost world of antiquated measurement units once used across history in this crossword puzzle.
Forgotten Measures of Historical Commerce
A crossword exploring archaic and obsolete units of measurement once used in trade, agriculture, and daily life.
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- 1. Historical unit of weight or volume for commodities like wool
- 3. Nautical unit of distance, roughly one-tenth of a nautical mile
- 4. Scottish measure of dry volume, especially for grain
- 6. Measure of length equal to 4 inches, often used for horses
- 7. An old unit of distance, roughly one-eighth of a mile
- 9. Unit of weight equal to 28 pounds in some historic systems
- 12. Surveying unit equal to 66 feet
- 14. An obsolete unit of mass or volume
- 16. An old unit of land area equivalent to a quarter of an acre
Down
- 2. Dry volume measurement equal to 2 gallons
- 5. Smallest unit of liquid volume in apothecaries' system
- 8. Old measure of distance, about three miles
- 10. A measure of length used for textiles, about 45 inches
- 11. Ancient unit of mass used for precious metals
- 13. Large barrel used to measure volume, especially liquids
- 15. Smallest unit of weight in the troy and avoirdupois systems
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