inches. 2871 Solid Pint. Wine Measure. For Wine, Spirits, Oil, Cider, Perry, Mead, Metheglin, Honey, &c. Quart. An anker = 10 gallons; a wine gallon = 2792445 Scots gallon =.819148936 ale gallon; a barrel of herrings 32 wine gallons; a cran of herrings 34 wine gallons; a barrel of salmon-42 wine galIons; a barrel of pitch or tar=31 gallons. Olive oil is sold by the tun of 236 gallons; port wine, by the pipe of 138 gallons; Lisbon, by the pipe of 140 gallons; Madeira, by the pipe of 110 gallons; Sherry. by the pipe of 130 gallons; Vidonia, by the pipe of 120 gallons. The beer measure in London was 9 gallons to the firkin, 36 gallons to the barrel, and 54 gallons to the hogshead; and the ale measure, 8 gallons to the firkin, 32 gallons to the barrel, and 48 gallons to the hogshead. But by Act 43. Geo. 3. cap. 69. the barrel of beer, or ale, sold by the common brewers of Great Britain, must contain 36 gallons; but if brewed by any victualler or retailer, it contains only 34 gallons, as in the table. An ale gallon .340896 Scotch gallon=1.220779 wine gallon. A pottle or quartern=4 pints; a strike-2 bushels; a coomb=4 bushels; a chaldron of corn-32 bushels; a wey=40 bushels; a last 80 bushels. A London chaldron of coals=36 bushels heaped up (each bushel containing a Winchester bushel and a quart) 28 cwt. or 3136 lb. The Newcastle chaldron of coals=52, cwt.; 15 London chaldrons 8 Newcastle chaldrons. A sack of coals = bushels; a vat or quarter 9 bushels. A quarter-1.3416964 barley boll-1 b. 1 f. 1 p. 1.868 lip. 3 Linen yarn. The reel is 90 inches in circumference: 120 threads =1 cut; 12 cuts-1 hank; 4 hanks-1 spindle. Cotton yarn.-The reel is 54 inches in circumference: 80 threads =1 skein; 7 skeins=1 hank; 18 hanks=1 spindle. Paper.-24 sheets-1 quire; 20 quires=1 ream ; 2 reams=1 bundle; 10 reams-1 bale. Also-a week=7 days; a month=4 weeks; a year=13 months and I day, or 52 weeks 1 day. Leap year=366 days; mean Julian year=365 days, 6 hours; solar year=365 days, 5 hours, 48′ 48′′; sidereal year=365 d. 6h. 9′ 10′′; a lunation, or lunar synodical month=29 d. 12 h. 44' 3". The civil year is divided into the following 12 civil, or calendar months: 200 lb. Scots Troye is reckoned a barrel of bacon, beef, butter, honey, and ashes; a last-12 barrels. Trone weight is much used for home productions; as butter, cheese, &c. but is different in almost every town. At Edinburgh, it stands thus: 294 English Troy Grains 1 drop, 16 drops 1 ounce, 20 ounces 1 lb., 16 lb-1 stone. A lb. Scots Troye 1.322222 lb. English Troy, = 1.087689 lb. Avoirdupois. |