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Quirky Units and Ancient Measures
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- 1. A nautical measure of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour
- 3. Old measure of distance roughly three miles
- 4. An ancient Greek unit of weight, also used in pharmacy
- 6. A unit for measuring the thickness of a ship’s plank
- 8. Unit for measuring the weight of gemstones
- 10. Common kitchen unit for volume in recipes
- 13. Equestrian measure for the height of horses, four inches each
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- 2. SI unit of energy named after a physicist
- 5. An old English unit of distance used in horse racing
- 7. Ancient Mesopotamian unit of currency and weight
- 9. A measurement 66 feet long used in surveying
- 11. Unit of heat energy, often used in food energy
- 12. Unit of electrical inductance
- 14. A printer’s unit of measure, about 1/6 of an inch
- 15. A length unit equal to 5.5 yards, used in land measurement
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