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  2. Bushel - Wikipedia

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    = 8 imperial gallons = 4 imperial pecks = 36.368 72 litres: ≈ 8.25645 US dry gallons ≈ 9.60760 US fluid gallons ≈ 2 219.36 cubic inches: ≈ 1.284 35 cubic feet 1 US bushel [6] = 8 US dry gallons = 4 US pecks = 2 150.42 cubic inches = 1.244 46 cubic feet = 35.239 070 166 88 litres = 9 3571 ⁄ 11550 US fluid gallons7.75151 imperial ...

  3. Barrel (unit) - Wikipedia

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    US dry barrel: 7,056 cubic inches (115.6 litres; 3.3 US bushels) . Defined as length of stave 28 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (72 cm), diameter of head 17 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (43 cm), distance between heads 26 in (66 cm), circumference of bulge 64 in (160 cm) outside measurement; representing as nearly as possible 7,056 cubic inches; and the thickness of staves not greater than 4 ⁄ 10 in (10 mm) [2] (diameter ≈ ...

  4. Metric Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    264.17 gallons Stère-1 cubic meter-- Hectoliter: 100 liters: 1 ⁄ 10 cubic meter: 2 bushels & 3.35 pecks: 26.417 gallons Dekaliter: 10 liters: 10 cubic decimeters: 9.08 dry quarts: 2.6417 gallons Liter: 1 liter: 1 cubic decimeter: 0.908 dry quarts: 1.0567 quarts Deciliter: 1 ⁄ 10 liter: 1 ⁄ 10 cubic decimeter: 6.1022 cubic inches: 0.843 ...

  5. Dry measure - Wikipedia

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    In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    3. c. 24 (I) — Irish Act about grain measures decreed: unit of measure to be Henry VIII's gallon as confirmed by Elizabeth I; i.e. 272 + 1 ⁄ 4 cubic inches; standard measures of the barrel (32 gallons), half-barrel (16 gallons), bushel (8), peck (2), and gallon lodged in the Irish Exchequer; and copies were provided in every county, city ...

  7. Cubic yard - Wikipedia

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    1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet = 46 656 cubic inches = 0.764 554 857 984 cubic metres ≈ 1.834 264 65 × 10 −10 cubic miles: ≈ 21.022 3197 imperial bushels: ≈ 21.696 2157 US bushels : ≈ 168.178 557 imperial gallons

  8. Template:Convert/list of units - Wikipedia

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    {{Convert}} uses unit-codes, which are similar to, but not necessarily exactly the same as, the usual written abbreviation for a given unit. These unit-codes are displayed in column 3 of the following tables. These are accepted as input by {{convert}} as the second and third unnamed parameters: {{convert|100|kg|lb}} → 100 kilograms (220 lb)

  9. South African units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    They were based on the British ale gallon. (Once there were different measures for ale and beer before the Ale gallon measure became standard for both in 1688; the Ale gallon then became the Imperial gallon in 1824). 1 firkin [9 Imp. gal.]: A Dutch word meaning "little Fourth"; a measure that was a fourth of a barrel.