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Forgotten Scales of Ancient Measures
Explore the world of obsolete measurement units that once shaped trade, land, and science in history.
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  • 1. An old distance unit used in horse racing
  • 2. Unit once used to measure horse height
  • 3. Traditional Indian unit of mass, often for grain
  • 6. Ancient apothecaries' weight, one twenty-fourth of an ounce
  • 8. Now archaic, used to measure distance across land or sea
  • 9. Ancient measure based on the width of a finger
  • 11. An old land measurement, also called a pole or perch
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  • 4. Unit of length equal to 66 feet used in surveying
  • 5. Large cask measurement historically used for wine or tobacco
  • 7. A former English unit used for measuring cloth
  • 10. Obsolete Greek land measure roughly equivalent to 1,000 square meters
  • 12. A small obsolete liquid measurement, quarter of a pint
  • 13. Archaic unit based on forearm length

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