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Alcohol measurements
Alcohol measurements are units of measurement for determining amounts of beverage alcohol.
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Atkinson resistance
Atkinson resistance is commonly used in mine ventilation to characterise the resistance to airflow of a duct of irregular size and shape, such as a mine roadway.
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Avoirdupois system
The avoirdupois system (abbreviated avdp) is a measurement system of weights which uses pounds and ounces as units.
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Barleycorn (unit)
The barleycorn is a small English unit of length equal to of an inch (i.e., close to) still used as the basis of shoe sizes in English-speaking countries.
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Byzantine units of measurement
Byzantine units of measurement were a combination and modification of the ancient Greek and Roman units of measurement used in the Byzantine Empire.
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Cape foot
A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property.
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Carucate
The carucate or carrucate (carrūcāta or carūcāta)Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed.
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Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) was an English astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Clove (disambiguation)
A clove is the aromatic dried flower bud of a tree in the family Myrtaceae.
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Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems
Both the imperial and United States customary systems of measurement derive from earlier English systems used in the Middle Ages, that were the result of a combination of the local Anglo-Saxon units inherited from German tribes and Roman units brought by William the Conqueror after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
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Conversion of units
Conversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors.
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Cooking weights and measures
In recipes, quantities of ingredients may be specified by mass (commonly called weight), by volume, or by count.
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Drop (unit)
The drop is an approximated unit of measure of volume, the amount dispensed as one drop from a dropper or drip chamber.
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Dunam
A dunam (دونم; dönüm), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.
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Earth radius
Earth radius is the approximate distance from Earth's center to its surface, about.
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English brewery cask units
Capacities of brewery casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units.
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English Engineering units
Some fields of engineering in the United States use a system of measurement of physical quantities known as the English Engineering units.
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English units
English units are the historical units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units.
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English wine cask units
Capacities of wine casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units.
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Exchequer Standards
The Exchequer Standards may refer to the set of official English standards for weights and measures created by Queen Elizabeth I (English units), and in effect from 1588 to 1826, when the Imperial Units system took effect, or to the whole range of English unit standards maintained by the Court of the Exchequer from the 1200s, or to the physical reference standards physically kept at the Exchequer and used as the legal reference until the such responsibility was transferred in the 1860s, after the Imperial system had been established.
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Faggot (unit)
A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items.
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Fathom
A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to, used especially for measuring the depth of water.
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Food Factory
Food Factory is a Canadian television series produced by Cineflix airing in that country on the Food Network, and in the United States on FYI.
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Foot (unit)
The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.
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Force
In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.
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Fotmal
The fotmal (fotmael, "foot-measure"; fotmal), also known as the foot (pes), formel, fontinel, and fotmell, was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in measuring production, sales, and duties of lead.
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Gc (engineering)
In engineering, gc is a unit conversion factor used to convert mass to force or vice versa.
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Grain (unit)
A grain is a unit of measurement of mass, and in the troy weight, avoirdupois, and Apothecaries' system, equal to exactly.
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Guz
A guz (Persian: گز, Hindi: गज) or Mughul yard, also written as gaz, guzz, guj, huj or gudge, is a unit of length used in parts of Asia.
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Hide (unit)
The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household.
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History of measurement
The earliest recorded systems of weights and measures originate in the 3rd or 4th millennium BC.
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Hong Kong units of measurement
Hong Kong has three main systems of units of measurement in current use.
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Hundred (unit)
The hundred (centena) was an English unit of measurement used in the production, sale, and taxation of various items in the medieval kingdom of England.
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Hundredweight
The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is an English, imperial, and US customary unit of weight or mass of various values.
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Imperial and US customary measurement systems
The imperial and US customary systems of measurement are two closely inter-related systems of measurement both derived from earlier English system of measurement units which can be traced back to Ancient Roman units of measurement, and Carolingian and Saxon units of measure.
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Imperial units
The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1825) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.
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Inch
The inch (abbreviation: in or &Prime) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to yard but usually understood as of a foot.
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Irish measure
Irish measure or plantation measure was a system of units of land measurement used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century, with residual use into the 20th century.
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Japanese units of measurement
Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法, "shaku–kan system") is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago.
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John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was the father of William Shakespeare.
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Jupiter radius
Jupiter radius or Jovian radius is the distance equal to the radius of planet Jupiter.
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Krakatoa, East of Java
Krakatoa, East of Java is a 1969 American disaster film starring Maximilian Schell and Brian Keith.
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Last (unit)
The last was a large English unit of weight, mass, volume, and number.
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Ligne
The ligne or line or Paris line, is a historic unit of length used in France and elsewhere prior to the adoption of the metric system in the late 18th century, and used in various sciences after that time.
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Line (unit)
The line (abbreviated L or l or ‴) was a small English unit of length, variously reckoned as,,, or of an inch.
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Link (unit)
The link (usually abbreviated as "l.", "li." or "lnk."), sometimes called a Gunter’s link, is a unit of length formerly used in many English-speaking countries.
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List of bats of Madagascar
Bats are one of the major components of the indigenous mammalian fauna of Madagascar, in addition to tenrecs, lemurs, euplerid carnivores, and nesomyine rodents.
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List of lemur species
Lemurs are strepsirrhine primates, all species of which are endemic to Madagascar.
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List of New World monkey species
New World monkeys are all simian primates.
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List of obsolete units of measurement
This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, sorted by type.
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List of Old World monkey species
Old World monkeys are all simian primates.
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List of townlands of County Cavan
This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,979 townlands in County Cavan, Ireland.
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Load (unit)
The load (carrus, "cartload"), also known as a fodder, fother, and charrus, was an English unit of weight or mass of various amounts, depending on the era and the substance being measured.
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Lunar distance (astronomy)
Lunar distance (LD or \Delta_), also called Earth–Moon distance, Earth–Moon characteristic distance, or distance to the Moon, is a unit of measure in astronomy.
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Manning formula
The Manning formula is also known as the Gauckler–Manning formula, or Gauckler–Manning–Strickler formula in Europe.
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Mars Surveyor '98 program
The Mars Surveyor '98 program comprised two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander); on board the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft were two surface-penetrator probes (Deep Space 2).
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Measurement
Measurement is the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event, which can be compared with other objects or events.
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Medieval weights and measures
The following systems arose from earlier systems, and in many cases utilise parts of much older systems.
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Metrication in the United States
Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units.
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Micropound
The micropound (abbreviation μlb) is a small unit of avoirdupois weight and mass in the US and imperial systems of measurement, equal to one-millionth pound.
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Mile
The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.
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Mincemeat
Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison.
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Natural ventilation
Natural ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems.
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Nipperkin
The nipperkin is a unit of measurement of volume, equal to one-half of a quarter-gill, one-eighth of a gill, or one thirty-second of an English pint.
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Norwegian units of measurement
As in the case of the Danes the Norwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from their ship burials.
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Nulla poena pro vitium Abyssus
Nulla poena pro vitium Abyssus (Latin: "No penalty for the crimes of Hell"), is a defunct English common law doctrine which prohibited a judge from taking into consideration criminal offences committed in a foreign jurisdiction whilst passing sentence for a crime committed in England.
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Obsolete Russian units of measurement
A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned after July 21, 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars.
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Obsolete Tatar units of measurement
A native system of weights and measures was used by Tatars until 1924, but became obsolete when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system.
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Octal
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7.
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Outline of production
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to production: Production – act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need.
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Pace (unit)
A pace is a unit of length consisting either of one normal walking step (~0.75 m), or of a double step, returning to the same foot (~1.5 m).
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Palm (unit)
The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized.
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Pint
The pint (symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as "p") is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems.
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Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States
The "Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States" was a report submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives on July 13, 1790, by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.
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Prony brake
The Prony Brake is a simple device invented by Gaspard de Prony to measure the torque produced by an engine.
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Quart
The quart (abbreviation qt.) is an English unit of volume equal to a quarter gallon.
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Quarter (unit)
The quarter ("one-fourth") is used as the name of several distinct English units based on ¼ sizes of some base unit.
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Quintal
The quintal or centner is a historical unit of mass in many countries which is usually defined as 100 base units of either pounds or kilograms.
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Red dot sight
A red dot sight is a common classification for a type of non-magnifying reflector (or reflex) sight for firearms, and other devices that require aiming, that gives the user an aimpoint in the form of an illuminated red dot.
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Reflector sight
A reflector sight or reflex sight is an optical device that allows the user to look through a partially reflecting glass element and see an illuminated projection of an aiming point or some other image superimposed on the field of view.
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Rod (unit)
The rod or perch or pole is a surveyor’s tool and unit of length equal to yards, 16 feet, of a statute mile or one-fourth of a surveyor's chain and 5.0292 meters.
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Rood (unit)
A rood is a historic English and international inch-pound measure of area, as well as an archaic English measure of length.
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Rope (unit)
A rope may refer to any of several units of measurement initially determined or formed by ropes or knotted cords.
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Rundlet
The rundlet is an archaic unit-like size of wine casks once used in Britain.
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Sack (unit)
The sack (abbreviation: sck.) was an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and wool.
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Sarpler
Sarpler, Sarplier or (in Scotland) Serplathe was a UK weight for wool.
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Scottish units
Scottish or Scots units of measurement are the weights and measures peculiar to Scotland which were nominally replaced by English units in 1685 but continued to be used in unofficial contexts until at least the late 18th century.
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Span (unit)
A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.
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Specific impulse
Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how effectively a rocket uses propellant or jet engine uses fuel.
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Specific speed
Specific speed Ns, is used to characterize turbomachinery speed.
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Stick (unit)
The stick may refer to several separate units, depending on the item being measured.
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Stone (unit)
The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds (6.35029318 kg).
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System of measurement
A system of measurement is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other.
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The 5'11" Record
The 5'11" Record (pronounced "The Five Eleven Record") is an album from Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based band Arrogance, spanning material recorded between 1976 and 1982, before the band's breakup in late 1983.
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The Barley Mow
The Barley Mow (Roud 944) is a cumulative song celebrated in the traditions of the folk music of Ireland, England, and Scotland.
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Tod
Tod or TOD may refer to.
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Ton
The ton is a unit of measure.
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Troy weight
Troy weight is a system of units of mass customarily used for precious metals and gemstones.
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Unit
Unit may refer to.
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Unit of measurement
A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.
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United States customary units
United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States.
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Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution
Woodcut dated 1800 illustrating the new decimal units which became the legal norm across all France on 4 November 1800 Before the French Revolution, which started in 1789, French units of measurement were based on the Carolingian system, introduced by the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne which in turn were based on ancient Roman measures.
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Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, also known as a sweeper or hoover, is a device that uses an air pump (a centrifugal fan in all but some of the very oldest models), to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and from other surfaces such as upholstery and draperies.
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Virgate
The virgate, yardland, or yard of land (virgāta) was an English unit of land.
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Weights and Measures Acts (UK)
Weights and measures acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures.
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Welsh units
Welsh units of measurement are those in use in Wales between the Sub-Roman period (prior to which the Britons used Roman units) and the 13th-century Edwardian conquest (after which English units were imposed).
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Wey (unit)
The wey or weight (Old English: ƿæᵹe, waege, "weight") was an English unit of weight and dry volume by at least 900, when it begins to be mentioned in surviving legal codes.
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Yard
The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches.
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