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Forgotten Measures of Yesteryear’s World
A crossword exploring obsolete and historical measurement units once used across different cultures and trades.
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  • 1. A unit of volume or weight roughly one-quarter of a bushel or stone
  • 4. Large cask used as a volume measure for liquids like ale or tobacco
  • 7. A tiny unit of mass based on a single seed
  • 8. A rare, archaic measure, often confused with sceptre
  • 10. Ancient Spanish measure of length often used for textiles
  • 13. Ancient length measurement from elbow to fingertip
  • 15. A medieval measure of length roughly the length of a forearm
Down
  • 2. A small unit of weight used in apothecaries
  • 3. Also called a mil, used for precise measurement
  • 5. Spanish and Latin American measure for area of land
  • 6. An old English unit of distance, equal to 220 yards
  • 9. Measurements sometimes mixed with symbols of power, here referencing a lost unit
  • 11. A surveying length equal to 66 feet
  • 12. An old unit of land area equal to a quarter of an acre
  • 14. An old measure based on the length or weight of a barleycorn

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