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  2. Sack (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A sack of coal was 16 stone, or 224 pounds (102 kg), while the weight of a sack of wool depended on who was selling it. A sack of grower's wool was 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 hundredweight or 364 pounds (165 kg), whereas a sack of dealer's wool was considerably lighter, at 240 pounds (109 kg).

  3. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Belfast stone for measuring flax equaled 16.75 avoirdupois pounds. [28] The most usual value was 14 pounds. [29] Among the oddities related to the use of the stone was the practice in County Clare of a stone of potatoes being 16 lb in the summer and 18 lb in the winter. [29]

  4. Glossary of curling - Wikipedia

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    A stone that is thrown harder than required and will probably slide too far Heavy ice Slow ice on which stones take more initial force to travel a similar distance as on fast (keen) ice (see keen ice) High side The high side of a shooter in motion is the side that it is curling away from, i.e., the side outside the curve of the shooter's path ...

  5. Help:Convert units - Wikipedia

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    Metric prefixes; Text Symbol Factor or; yotta Y 10 24: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: zetta Z 10 21: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: exa E 10 18: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: peta P 10 15: 1 000 000 000 000 000: tera T

  6. Salamis Stone - Wikipedia

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    The Salamis Stone is an Ancient Greek artifact discovered on the Island of Salamis, depicting an arm, hands, and feet. It is believed to be a conversion table for different measuring systems used in Greek architecture, such as Doric, Ionic, and Common.

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  8. Hewing - Wikipedia

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    Hew is a general term meaning to strike or blow with a tool such as an axe or sword; to chop or gash, and is used in warfare, stone and woodcutting, and coal and salt mining in this sense. [1] [2] Hewing wood is to shape the wood with a sharp instrument such as an axe, [3] specifically flattening one or more sides of a log.

  9. Hundredweight - Wikipedia

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    The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).