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16 Ounces 40 Poles 60 Minutes 60 Seconds 99 1 Hogshead 99 1 Quarter Acts of Parliament Albert aliquot attention pay AVOIRDUPOIS Barrel breadth Carat clearly can show CLOTH MEASURE Clove COAL MEASURE COMPLETE GUIDE Cubic dealers call Decimals Degree Drachm Drams DRY MEASURE Earth's Circumference Families Feet Firkin Five Foot forty Poles Four Quarts Fourteen pounds Furlong Gallon 99 GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE Grains half hay 1 Truss Hundred-weight Inches JAMES BISHOP Kilderkin Litre LONG MEASURE LUDGATE-HILL Lunar Month MEASURE HORSES Measures and Weights Metres Metric System mile mind Pennyweight Perch Pints one Quart Poles 1 Rood Pottle Pound 99 Prince Quadrant QUARTER DAYS recollect rule Scruple Seven pounds sewed Sheets Shilling sixteen sixty Minutes sixty Seconds square Chain SQUARE MEASURE Square Yard 99 Stone straw thirty days thirty-one thousand tis plain tis true TROY WEIGHT Truss 99 Twelve twenty-four Twill WOOL WEIGHT
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Page 20 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes =± 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month...
Page 1 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Page 12 - Measure. 4 gills make 1 pint 2 pints 1 quart 4 quarts 1 gallon 10 gallons 1 anker of brandy 42 gallons 1 tierce 63 gallons...
Page 2 - Avoirdupois Weight. , -, 16 drams make 1 ounce 16 ounces ; 1 pound 28 pounds 1 quarter 4 quarters, or...
Page 8 - ... 40 square rods, 1 square rood. 4 square roods, 1 square acre. 640 square acres, 1 square mile. 1 1 . Solid, or Cubic Measure. 1728 solid inches make 1 solid foot. 40 feet of round timber, oi > . . , , 50 feet of hewn timber, Î 1 ton or load...
Page 14 - Measure. = 2 Pints. = 2 Quarts. = 4 Quarts. = 2 Gallons. = 4 Pecks. = 2 Bushels. = 4 Bushels. = 8 Bushels. = 5 Quarters. = 10 Quarters.
Page 11 - ALE AND BEER MEASURE. 2 pints make 1 quart 4 quarts — 1 gallon 9 gallons — 1 firkin 2 firkins or 18 gals.
Page 6 - Hand. 1 Foot. 1 Yard. 1 Fathom. 1 Rod, Pole, or Perch. 1 Chain. 1 Furlong. 1 Mile. 1 League. . 1 Degree.