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Forgotten Measures of Time and Length
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  • 1. An archaic Spanish dry measure for grain or flour
  • 3. Ancient apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
  • 6. Obsolete Indian length measure approximately equal to a span of hand
  • 7. British weight unit equal to 14 pounds
  • 8. Nautical measure roughly equal to the span of outstretched arms
  • 10. A measure of length equal to 16.5 feet, used in surveying
  • 12. Small unit of weight, historically based on a cereal seed
  • 16. Medieval unit of length used in England, roughly the length of a forearm
Down
  • 2. Unit of length of 66 feet, used in early land measurement
  • 4. Ancient Egyptian and Biblical unit based on forearm length
  • 5. Old English measure of distance, equal to 220 yards
  • 9. Old British weight measure equaling 28 pounds
  • 11. An old measure of distance, often described as three miles
  • 13. Traditional Southeast Asian unit of length, around 3 meters
  • 14. Typographic unit of measure approximately 1/6 of an inch
  • 15. Old typographic term related to spacing, historically a small unit

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