Explore the lost world of antiquated measurement units once used across history in this crossword puzzle.
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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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