HERB - A soap question Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights and Measures Quest...

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I asked the resident brewer. . .he looked it up in one of his books. . .this 
was the answer he gave me. . .

Zupko (the author of the book. . .) defines a strike as:
A measure of capacity for grain generally containing 2 bushels (about 7.05 
dekaliters) and equal to 1/4 SEAM.  In some shires, however, strikes of 1/2 
to 4 bushels (about 1.76 to about 14.10 dekaliter) were occasionally used.  
The strike was commonly called the half-coomb.  Since the establishment of 
the Imperial system in 1824 the strike has been reconed at 2 bushel (7.274 
dekaliter) and equal to 1/2 COOMB and 1/4 QUARTER.  Occasionally, it was 
abbreviated str.


Reference - 
Zupko, Ronald Edward.  A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures, The 
Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Helene
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